In the Horn of Africa, Saudi's Mass Deportations Have Devastating Impact
Source: Refugees International Country: Somalia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, World, Yemen In November of 2013, the government of Saudi Arabia began expelling large numbers of foreign nationals, including some 550,000 Yemenis, 180,000 Ethiopians, and 36,000 Somalis. While there has been little internatio ...
Iran deputy foreign minister to visit Saudi Arabia
DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Iran's deputy foreign minister will visit Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for the first bilateral talks between the Middle East's most intractable Muslim rivals since Iran's political landscape shifted in 2013, media in both countries reported. Shi'ite Muslim Iran and Sunni Saudi Ar ...
Is White House Pressuring Pentagon to Downplay ISIS Threat?
In what many are viewing as a walkback from last week’s comments warning of ISIS’ “apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told reporters en route to Afghanistan over the weekend that he would recommend military action against the group o ...
Gen. Dempsey’s ISIS reversal, and his dangerous Yemen analogy
Last week, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey was crystal clear about the danger posed by ISIS. Speaking at a Pentagon press conference, he declared: [The Islamic State] is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be def ...
Yemen seeks Japan's support to generate electricity by renewable energy
Yemen seeks Japan's support to generate electricity by renewable energy SANA'A, Aug.25 (Saba)- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Electricity Abdullah al-Akwa met here on Monday with a delegation of Foreign Ministry of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is currentl ...
Hysteria About ISIS Is Unwarranted
Sometime back, the surprise invasion of northern Iraq by the vicious Islamist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) raised eyebrows in Washington policy-making circles and the American media. However, it took gruesome footage of the beheading of journalist James Foley to throw these foreign p ...
Yemen Shiite rebels harden their protest demands
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's Shiite rebel group on Monday presented the government with new demands in order to stop their protests, hardening their positions and prolonging the standoff that has brought protest tents to the capital. The demonstrations by ...
