List of Yemen articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will al Qaeda Be the Great Winner of Yemen’s Collapse?
Big gains and great challenges await the world's most dangerous al Qaeda affiliate.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Middle East’s Franz Ferdinand Moment
Why the Islamic State's claimed attack in Yemen could spark an Arab World War.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Documentary Goes Inside Yemen’s Houthi Rebel Movement
Journalist Safa Al Ahmad provides an intimate portrait of a misunderstood and hugely important rebel group.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Misunderstanding wars in Yemen, Vietnam, and Yemen once again
There’s an moment in the 2003 documentary The Fog of War in which former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara lays out what he got wrong in Vietnam. “We saw Vietnam as an element of the Cold War,” he says. “Not what they [the Vietnamese] saw it as: a civil war.” I thought of that the other day as I listened to Adam Baron, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, talking about the Saudi intervention in Yemen.
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yemen Egypt’s Vietnam
Lessons from the last time Cairo waded into war in Yemen.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Make No Mistake — the United States Is at War in Yemen
The White House just doesn’t want to admit it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Operation Charlie Foxtrot
The entire Middle East is at war right now, and the Obama administration's strategic incoherence is aiding and abetting the chaos.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Playing Both Sides of the Fence
Sectarian war is spreading in the Middle East, and Washington finds itself fighting with Sunnis in one country and with Shiites in another.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saudi Arabia’s Big Gamble
With a new king and a young, untested defense minister, Riyadh has plunged headlong into war in Yemen. At stake is nothing less than the kingdom's position of leadership in the Arab world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Yemen Strife Reminds Oil Markets That Mayhem Matters
Military action by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states in Yemen spooked oil traders, a reminder that a world in flames can still rattle energy markets.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Yemen Was Washington’s Counterterrorism Success Story. Not Anymore.
As U.S. special operations forces pull out of an increasingly anarchic Yemen, the fight against al Qaeda just got even harder.
