Targeted killings in Aden and Hadramawt expose a widening security vacuum after the STC rebellion and complicate Saudi-backed efforts to restore normality in government-held areas. The assassination of Mohammed Aidha, the Al Arabiya and Al Hadath correspondent ...
The Houthi General Mobilization Forces issued a notable statement declaring “full and immediate readiness” to support the group’s military forces with fighters, “expel occupiers,” end the siege, and restore what it described as the rights of the Ye...
Yemen’s recent push to strengthen local authorities has reopened a sensitive debate over decentralization, federalism and the future shape of the state after years of war. The debate gained momentum after the National Conference on Partnership and Integration b...
A political controversy in Yemen over the status of Socotra has opened a wider debate about sovereignty, maritime security and the role of regional powers in shaping local authority along the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. The dispute began after Socotra Governor Raafat Al...
Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi “Irro” arrived in Israel on Sunday in the first visit of its kind by a Somaliland leader, marking a new phase in relations between Hargeisa and Tel Aviv after Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as an ...
The regional rivalry reshaping the Red Sea is increasingly moving south into the Gulf of Aden, where Somalia’s fragile political landscape, armed networks and contested ports are becoming part of a broader struggle over maritime influence between Yeme...
Somalia’s 2025 was not defined by security challenges alone. It was a year in which the country’s fight against Al-Shabaab intersected with a sensitive security transition, deepening federal tensions, unresolved constitutional disputes, and growing...
Abaad Studies and Research Center has launched the Early Warning and Strategic Indicators Observatory as part of its research programs. The Observatory is designed as a platform for monitoring and analyzing daily information and tracking political, economic, milita...
The current Iran-Israel escalation has pushed the region into a more dangerous phase. On Monday, June 8, 2026, Israel said it had struck military targets in western and central Iran after Tehran launched missiles toward Israel in response to an earlier Israeli str...
Exclusive information obtained by Sheba Intelligence indicates that the Houthi group raised its military readiness along Yemen’s western coast and in Hajjah governorate hours before announcing missile attacks and threatening Israeli-linked shipping in the Red Sea. &...
Yemen’s crisis in 2025 was not shaped by a single battlefield, political dispute, or humanitarian emergency. It was a year in which the conflict expanded into a broader struggle over sovereignty, state authority, regional influence, maritime security, and econom...
Sudan’s war in 2025 moved beyond a contest for military control. It became a struggle over territory, legitimacy, humanitarian survival, regional influence, and the future shape of the Sudanese state. At the beginning of the year, the Sudanese Armed Forces ap...
In response to ongoing threats from the Houthis targeting both the Yemeni government and Saudi Arabia, the internationally recognized Yemeni government has decided to reverse recent decisions made by the Central Bank of Yemen. These decisions, aimed at regaining control over the coun...
Yemen is now enduring its tenth year of a devastating civil war, the deadliest and most costly in modern time. Various factions have clashed on military, political, and economic fronts, while diplomatic efforts have largely failed to provide effective solutions. Observers of Yemeni...
The Hadramout Inclusive Conference has given the local authorities in Hadramout province a 30-day deadline to address the deterioration of the living situation and the continued collapse of services, threatening to escalate if its demands are ignored. A statement released yesterday b...
The seven-day UN-sponsored talks on Yemen ended in Muscat yesterday without reaching tangible results on the swap of prisoners. The parties to the conflict in Yemen, the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group and the Yemeni government confirmed the end of this round of negotiations, saying that anot...
Regional mediation yesterday ended the Ansar Allah (Houthi) seizure of three commercial planes in Sanaa International Airport, marking an end to a fresh dispute that started ten days ago when the Houthi authorities prevented three commercial planes from taking off from the airp...
It has been four days since the Yemeni government and the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group began a new round of talks on prisoner swap in Oman. Today, the two sides have declared one of the agreements they have reached. The Houthis have agreed to reveal the fate of Mohammed Qahtan, a ...
The parties to the conflict in Yemen arrived in Muscat yesterday to initiate a new round of negotiation on a prisoner swap amid rising tensions on several battlefronts in several Yemeni provinces. The delegations of the UN-recognized government and the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group decl...
A recent report has claimed that a number of individuals working in international organizations have used their positions to promote the Ansar Allah (Houthi) agenda. This has prompted U.S. officials to form a committee to investigate the information provided by such a report, a dip...
