Yemen’s Endless Wars
For more than a century, southern Arabia has seen waves of insurgency and conflict backed by competing foreign powers.
Mountainous and dry, with a tendency to anarchy in the ample spaces between its cities, Yemen has long been hospitable to insurgency. Yet in ancient times it was home to the Sabaeans and had claims to be the biblical land of the Queen of Sheba. Its fertility and beauty were such that the Romans called it
Arabia Felix, ‘happy Arabia’. The people there are mostly Arabs and like much of the rest of Arabia, became subject to the distant domain of the Ottoman sultan. The fate of the peninsula was influenced significantly by Britain, which in 1937 took the port city of Aden as the centre of its colony (on independence in 1967, it became South Yemen). Britain exercised significant influence over who ruled Muscat and Oman; assisted succession to the monarchy and imamate of North Yemen; and together with the US confirmed the al Saud f
Clash Reported Near Iran s Border With Turkey
May 11, 2021 19:54 GMT
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) forces on May 11 killed seven militants and dismantled their cell in the country s northwest near the border with Turkey, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Two members of the IRGC were also reportedly killed in the shoot-out.
IRNA reported that the “group of terrorists” had entered Iran illegally from Turkey.
The clash took place around noon in the city of Salmas in Iran s West Azerbaijan Province, according to the report. The city is located about 650 kilometers northwest of the capital Tehran.
President Biden and Iran’s leaders say they share a common goal: They both want to re-enter the nuclear deal that President Donald J. Trump scrapped three years ago, restoring the bargain that Iran would keep sharp limits on its production of nuclear fuel in return for a lifting of sanctions that have choked its economy. But after five weeks of shadow boxing in Vienna hotel rooms where the two sides pass notes through European intermediaries it has become clear that the old deal, strictly defined, does not work for either of them anymore, at least in the long run.
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