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Ansar Allah says Saudi-backed forces have failed to break its hold near Bab el-Mandeb. As the coastal battle remains disputed, Sana’a is widening the conflict towards Saudi airports, oil infrastructure, shipping and transport networks, raising the cost of Riyadh’s renewed intervention in Yemen.
Defence and Law
Tankers are concentrated in the Gulf, B-1 bombers remain at RAF Fairford, surveillance aircraft are watching Iran and another carrier is heading towards the region. The United States has much of the machinery for…
The House of Saud built a durable state over older tribal, religious and regional loyalties. Could Yemen change the bargains that have held the…
Economics
Fertiliser trade has adapted to disruption in the Gulf, but higher prices and uneven subsidies expose a divide between countries that can protect their farmers and those that cannot.
Ansar Allah’s advance to Bab el Mandeb has placed Yemen once again at the centre of a struggle over global trade, regional power and…
Germany
The AfD has won 43.8 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt but remains three seats short of a majority. Its historic victory exposes the political and economic failures that carried it from an anti-euro protest party…
Washington’s attempt to tighten the economic isolation of Iran faces a fundamental obstacle: China, the dominant buyer of Iranian oil. Beijing is warning against…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence is beginning to search for discoveries, conduct experiments and improve research systems. From Weco AI and Google DeepMind to Chinese science programmes, the race is moving beyond chatbots. But machines remain far…
From Yemen and Iraq to Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, the war with Iran is reactivating older conflicts with grievances and political agendas of their…