Confronting the Houthis: How powerful are Yemen’s rebel rulers?
The Houthis represent only around 15% of Yemenis, yet consider themselves the rightful rulers. Source link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68182879
Turkey’s Central Bank Chief Steps Down Amid Long Inflation Battle
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey appointed a new central bank governor early Saturday, hours after the abrupt resignation of his previous appointee, who said she was stepping down because…
US launches strikes in Iraq and Syria as Israel-Hamas war rages
A screengrab from a video, geolocated by CNN to the town of Qaim, Iraq, shows the aftermath of US military strikes in the area according to the Iraqi Military. An…
What we know about US strikes in Iraq and Syria
More than 85 targets were struck in 30 minutes with bombers flown from the United States. Source link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68189567
What Withholding Funds to UNRWA Means for Gaza
Since the start of the conflict, a supplemental budget jumped to $47 million a month from $12 million a month, according to Tom White, UNRWA’s Gaza director. That extra money…
Ros Atkins on… Iran, its proxies and the ‘Axis of Resistance’
The US has launched strikes on 85 targets in Syria and Iraq in response to Sunday’s drone attack on a US military base that killed three soldiers. The US military’s…
U.S. Conducts Retaliatory Strikes Against Iranian Proxies
The United States on Friday carried out a series of military strikes against Iranian forces and the militias they support in seven sites in Syria and Iraq, marking a sharp…
US strikes Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria – live updates
For days, American officials had been telegraphing that retaliatory strikes would come, after Sunday’s deadly attack on a base in Jordan. This marks an escalation of the violence in the…
Biden Honors Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Jordan
President Biden honored three Army reservists killed in the Middle East as their bodies were returned to the United States on Friday in a silent, somber ceremony marking the first…
Turkey 'arrests seven for passing Israel information'
President Erdogan has warned Israel of “serious consequences” if it targets Hamas on Turkish soil. Source link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68185713