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Half In, Half Out: Biden’s Ambiguous Withdrawal from Yemen and its Human Consequences
At 8:30 a.m. on August 9, 2018, an aerial bomb fell on a school bus in a market in Yemen, killing 40 children. The explosion was so...
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Apr 8, 20215 min read


Is the UAE pushing South Yemen to Secession?
In Aden, South Yemen’s largest city and the country’s most prominent port, Yemeni flags are increasingly hard to come by; instead, the...
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Nov 29, 20175 min read


Looking Away: America’s Secret War in Yemen
On October 8, 2016, a U.S.-backed airstrike led by Saudi Arabia “wrongly” targeted a funeral ceremony in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, killing...
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Dec 8, 20165 min read


It’s Always Sunni: Patterns of Persistent Western Anti-Shiite Policy in the Middle East
Western countries routinely and almost systematically regard the Middle East as a historically conflict-ridden region, and the...
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Dec 8, 20167 min read


The Ethics of Modern Warfare
On October 13 at 4am, a US naval destroyer launched a series of Tomahawk cruise missiles towards three radar sites along the Iran-backed...
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Nov 25, 20165 min read


No Country for Yemen: Reevaluating US military strategy in the Middle East
It’s easy to understand why the Yemeni Civil War has earned the moniker “the forgotten war.” Over the past few months, headlines about...
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Mar 16, 20164 min read


Yemen’s House of Cards
It has become increasingly clear that the effects of the Arab Spring are still reverberating across the Middle East four years after the...
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Nov 15, 20155 min read


The Human Cost of Conflict in Yemen
Today, as Yemen lies on the brink of civil war, over 634 civilians have been killed, tens of thousands injured and over 100,000 displaced...
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Apr 16, 20155 min read


Yemen: The Importance of Success in a Failed State
On Christmas Day, 2009, the United States almost suffered another 9/11. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, attempted to...
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Oct 30, 20144 min read


BPR Media Spotlight: Yemen’s Arab Spring
What follows is a look back at Yemen’s 2011 Revolution, which was first triggered by a mass desire to change the political structure and...
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Mar 11, 20141 min read
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