The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group has confessed that Iran has provided support for the Houthis to target shipping lanes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. This is the first time Houthis have admitted the key Iranian role in their military operations. While Iranian officials have repea...
Yemen’s southern separatist leadership has acted as if its forces are united and political divisions are non-existent. Led by the Southern Transitional Council (STC), the separatists have taken over all southern provinces since 2017, except for Hadramout and Al-Mahra, which they al...
Military tension between the UAE and Saudi Arabia escalated in the eastern and southern regions of Yemen in an unprecedented manner, leading to frictions that almost turned into a military confrontation between opposing forces loyal to the Gulf states. After the forces loyal...
An investigation by Sheba Intelligence reveals that the Iranians have begun planning to establish a free economic zone on the Red Sea coast in the Ras Issa of Al-Hudaydah as part of the benefits they will gain from the war in Yemen. The investigation, which will be published...
A Belize-flagged ship has caused an 18-mile (29-kilometer) oil slick in the Red Sea, causing serious concerns about an environmental disaster amid rising escalations between the U.S. forces and Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) group. The oil slick from the Rubymar, a British-register...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group and the European Union held "constructive" talks on the Red Sea security amid continued Houthi attacks on ships and U.S. airstrikes on sites in Yemen. Hussein Al-Ezzi, a Houthi official in the Houthi foreign ministry, said yesterday the talks ...
A Western diplomatic source told Sheba Intelligence that European companies began about a month ago paying money to the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group in return for the safe passage of their ships in the Red Sea. The sources said that the money paid by European ships ...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group keeps mobilizing forces and preparing for a long war against rivals and international troops on several frontlines. The Houthi-run Saba News Agency said today a military parade was held in Al-Marashi District in Al-Jawf province where 70...
Military sources revealed to Sheba Intelligence that the Director of the Military Industrialization Department at the Yemeni Ministry of Defense, General Hassan Saleh Muhammad Bin Jalal, whose assassination is still being investigated by the Egyptian authorities, had recently contributed...
Assigning assassins to kill specific Yemeni political and military figures has been common since the breakout of the civil war in 2015. While the war has de-escalated since April 2022, and several frontlines have been quiet, assassinations have not ceased. Today, sources said th...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group, classified by the United States as a terrorist organization, is preparing to activate new centers to launch parallel strikes on international forces in the Red Sea and attacks on camps belonging to the Yemeni government in Al-Dhale province to th...
The presence of the components unmanned underwater/surface vehicles in the Iran-originated weapons shipment, which was lately captured in the Arabian Sea on the way to Yemen, is an attempt to arm the Houthis with mini-submarines, a military expert told Sheba Intelligence today. ...
Smugglers in Yemen still find room to operate and illegally transport medicines from other countries to several Yemeni provinces, risking the lives of thousands of Yemenis. On Tuesday, the Supreme Authority for Medicines and Medical Supplies in Taiz destroyed 2 tons of smuggled medic...
The United States-Britain strikes on Yemen and the Israeli war on Palestinians in Gaza have enabled the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group to attract thousands of fighters, including children, over the last few months. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today the Houthi group has recruited more t...
Yemen marks today the 13th anniversary of the February 11 uprising, which broke out in 2011 against the regime of then-president Ali Abdullah Saleh. At the time, different political, social, and military groups joined the public protests, calling for a regime change. It was a turning point in ...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group transferred missile and drone centers from the coastal areas and islands to the provinces of Al-Jawf, Amran, and Saada, in order to reduce losses, maintain offensive capabilities, and avoid being easily targeted by the international forces in the Red Sea. ...
Eleven cases of violations against media freedoms were committed in Yemen during January of 2024, the Yemen Media Freedom Observatory said on Tuesday. The Observatory indicated that the violations included one case of arrest, one case of detention, one case of assault, three cases of...
Yemen's UN-recognised government named Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak the new prime minister on Monday amid rising economic challenges, including the continued depreciation of the national currency. A decree issued on Monday by Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) annou...
Airstrikes by the United States and the United Kingdom continued hitting several sites in Yemen's Al-Hudayah over the past three weeks as the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group keeps flooding the province with more forces in preparation for a potential ground or naval attack by the U.S.-led ...
The United States and the United Kingdom carried out late Saturday a fresh barrage of strikes on Houthi-controlled sites in Sanaa and other provinces in North Yemen as part of the two countries' continued effort to mitigate the Houthi threats on shi...
