Disgruntled tribes, a sidelined clergy, an army divided by design. While Houthi missiles hit Riyadh, the crown prince’s power grab may prove his undoing. As part of its ‘blockade-for-blockade’, ‘airport-for-airport’ strategy, Ansarallah carried out a third attack on Riyadh International Airport on Saturday — 12 people (mostly civilians) were killed and more than 300 injured....

We are on a path to more war. Trump could (and should) have declared victory and simply walked away from Iran, but that would have cast him as ‘a loser’ (a prospect that he cannot tolerate). But secondly, he is — for whatever reason — in thrall to Netanyahu and Israel. Tucker Carlson in August...

Geography, Yemen’s Revolutionary Inheritance, Saudi Internal Factionalism and its Contested Islamic Credentials Are Yemen’s Trump Cards Ansar Allalah [Houthis] enjoys many perhaps unperceived advantages in its conflict against the ‘wealthy', westernised Saudi Kingdom. This is a war recently rekindled by Saudi’s September rupture of the 2022 Truce, when it bombed Sanaa’s international airport in July...