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Can Oman’s New Leader Uphold Sultan Qaboos’s Peaceful Legacy?

A Flagging Economy Threatens the Sultanate’s Role as a Trusted Mediator

Nikita Lalwani, Josh Rubin, and Sam Winter-Levy

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Can Oman’s New Leader Uphold Sultan Qaboos’s Peaceful Legacy?

A Flagging Economy Threatens the Sultanate’s Role as a Trusted Mediator

Nikita Lalwani, Josh Rubin, and Sam Winter-Levy

Iran Nov 11, 2019 Snapshot

Peace Is Possible in Yemen

Out of a moment of crisis, a chance for a solution.

April Longley Alley and Peter Salisbury

U.S. Foreign Policy May 2, 2019 Snapshot

A Real Plan to End the War in Yemen

If Washington is serious about ending the war in Yemen, it must double down on its support for the Saudi-led coalition until all warring parties are ready for peace.

Michael Knights, Kenneth M. Pollack, and Barbara F. Walter

Houthi supporters at a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, March 2019

United Nations Nov 26, 2018 Snapshot

The Only Way to End the War in Yemen

The war in Yemen has been a disaster for U.S. interests, for Saudi interests, and above all for the Yemeni people.

Jeffrey Feltman

A Houthi arms depot explodes after it was hit by air strikes in Sana'a, Yemen, January 31, 2018

Middle East Jun 27, 2018 Snapshot

The New Front in Yemen

A successful assault on the Yemen's biggest port would change the course of the war, but it could come at a steep cost.

Peter Salisbury

People displaced by the fighting over Hodeidah at an IDP registration center in Sanaa, June 2018

Middle East Feb 28, 2018 Snapshot

Building Peace in Yemen From the Ground Up

From the beginning, the peace process in Yemen has suffered from faulty assumptions and out-of-date-analysis.

Peter Salisbury

The aftermath of air strikes, Saada, Yemen, January 2018

Yemen Dec 6, 2017 Postscript

Ali Abdullah Saleh’s Fatal Calculation

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was more than just a leader practiced in the arts of political expedience. He represented the last historic link with the...

Asher Orkaby

Trump Administration November/December 2017 Essay

Yemen’s Humanitarian Nightmare

Yemen’s civil war is not, despite popular belief, part of a broader Saudi-Iranian conflict, but rather the result of deep historical tensions within Yemen itself. Yet...

Asher Orkaby

Critical condition: at a hospital in Al Hudaydah, Yemen, June 2017

Yemen Mar 21, 2017 Snapshot

Seeking Accountability in Yemen

As an inter-governmental body comprising 47 countries, many of which have poor human rights records, the UN Human Rights Council is often paralyzed by infighting,...

Fatima Bhojani

Persian Gulf Oct 24, 2016 Snapshot

The Gulf Also Rises

Becoming a globally competitive hub is the driver of much of the Arab Gulf’s recent success in the travel and logistics sectors, which propel global connectivity.

Rory Miller

A Saudi man poses with Saudi riyal banknotes at a money exchange shop, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia January 20, 2016.

Yemen Jun 23, 2016 Letter From

The Battle Over Yemen's Cultural Capital Continues

In Yemen, the fighting has slowed, but the war continues, particularly in Taiz, the country's cultural capital.

Asmaa Waguih

Yemen Oct 28, 2015 Photo Gallery

Al Qaeda Conquers Yemen's Mukalla

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington has considered al Qaeda’s most dangerous franchise since it attempted several attacks on the United States,...

Yemen Oct 28, 2015 Letter From

How al Qaeda Rules in Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington has considered al Qaeda’s most dangerous franchise since it attempted several attacks on the United States,...

Ayisha Amr

Firefighters extinguish a fire at a food storage warehouse hit by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa October 25, 2015.

Yemen Oct 14, 2015 Photo Gallery

The Tragedy of Yemen's Taiz

A photo essay from Yemen’s most populated city, Taiz, which has been under heavy fire from Houthis and fighters loyal to the country's exiled president for six months.

Yemen Sep 18, 2015 Snapshot

Houthis, Divided

Locals who used to generally support the Houthis now debate which is worse: the Houthis or the Saudis. Meanwhile, defections from the movement have multiplied, and its...

Ayisha Amr

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Aug 30, 2015 Snapshot

Assisting Al Qaeda

AQAP’s expansion in Yemen is also a product of the West’s failure to grasp how Yemenis view AQAP—a failure that both empowered the group and undermined those best...

Sarah Phillips

Boys gather near the wreckage of car destroyed last year by a U.S. drone air strike targeting suspected al Qaeda militants in Azan of the southeastern Yemeni province of Shabwa, February 3, 2013.

Persian Gulf Jul 14, 2015 Snapshot

Bridging the Gulf in the Gulf

A post-deal policy that focuses exclusively on rolling back Iranian power will produce confrontation rather than diminish it. A policy that includes a parallel effort...

Frederic Wehrey and Richard Sokolsky

A staff removes the Iranian flag from the stage after a group picture with foreign ministers and representatives of Unites States, Iran, China, Russia, Britain, Germany, France and the European Union during the Iran nuclear talks at the Vienna Internation

Science & Technology Jul 6, 2015 Snapshot

Yemen Calling

Call data can help us understand violent places in the developing world that are largely inaccessible. At a time when Yemen remains highly volatile, for example,...

Fotini Christia, Leon Yao, Stephen Wittels, and Jure Leskovec

A woman takes pictures with a mobile phone from behind a barrier separating women from men at Taghyeer (Change) Square, in Sanaa, January 26, 2012.

Middle East May 25, 2015 Snapshot

Nuclear Power to the People

There’s a gold rush in the Middle East, but it isn’t gold that prospectors are seeking. It’s reactor sales. Whatever the energy promise of the peaceful atom, evidently...

Bennett Ramberg

A view of the reactor at the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, 746 miles south of Tehran, February 25, 2009.

Obama Administration May 18, 2015 Snapshot

Obama's Arab Security Strategy

Twenty-five years ago, in the wake of the Gulf War, the first Bush administration sketched out a plan for the security of its Arab partners. The original had Iraq in...

David Ottaway

Anti-Houthi fighters of the Southern Popular Resistance stand on a tank in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, May 10, 2015.

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