Amid rapidly unfolding events in southern and eastern Yemen, the Southern Transitional Council (STC) announced on Friday its intention to hold a referendum on the independence of southern Yemen ...

In a strategic reading of shifting dynamics in the Red Sea, Ilan Berman links Israel’s recognition of “Somaliland” to Tel Aviv’s effort to position itself as a guarantor of international maritime ...

The war in Sudan is no longer confined within its borders or limited to the edges of the Blue Nile region. Signs are emerging of a new and more dangerous phase, as Sudanese intelligence reports ...

The specter of military escalation has once again come to hover over Lebanon, following Israeli airstrikes carried out on Thursday targeting sites in southern Lebanon and other border areas. In a ...

In recent years, the world’s attention has drifted away from Somalia as major global crises consumed the military capacities of many countries and dominated their diplomatic focus. That ...

As it has done at similar junctures, Omani diplomacy moved to extinguish the flames of disputes that have recently flared between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, following an airstrike ...

As the curtain closed on 2025, the Israeli military published its annual operational summary, offering a portrait of a year described within the defense establishment as one of the most intense ...

Cautious calm and anticipation prevail in southern Yemen, as key parties await an announcement by the Southern Transitional Council on the fate of its forces in Hadramawt and Al-Mahra, amid the ...

In the Middle East, political and security conditions rarely serve the economic ambitions of its countries. The region, where armed conflicts stretch across vast areas, has long curbed — and at ...

Commercial shipping in the Red Sea no longer resembles what it was in past decades. The waterway has been militarized, with warships and naval fleets from distant powers flowing into it. As the ...

Iranian opposition figures told Alhurra that Iran is building a security wall inside Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, running parallel to the Iranian border. Khalil Kani Sinani, a senior figure in the ...

Uncertainty surrounds the issue of restricting weapons to the state in Iraq, as Iran-aligned militias announce a reversal of their long-standing opposition to surrendering their arms. The militias ...