The world’s worst humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Yemen, where outside powers stoke a civil war. Peace remains a distant dream. A Red Crescent staffer tries to pull a body from rubble at a detention center after it was hit by airstrikes in Dhamar, Yemen, 1...
By Alistair Lyon United Nations-brokered talks involving Yemeni combatants offer a rare chance to brake the country’s slide into an apocalyptic war-induced famine, but peace is not around the corner. If the talks in Sweden fail, as did the last serious...
This article is part of a News-Decoder series of “decoders” that explain crucial background to big issues. For more decoders, click here. By Alistair Lyon Faith is often flaunted in the Middle East, but there are no angels here. One religiously-based state...
Below is a decoder on the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia for supremacy in the Islamic world — a struggle that is playing itself out across the Middle East and the Gulf. In its latest twist, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Saturday,...
By Alistair Lyon Saudi-led intervention in Yemen’s civil war, now in its third year, has provoked what is currently the world’s gravest humanitarian catastrophe. The United States and Britain are making it worse. The two Western powers directly support a...
