On 10 September, Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, captured the Red Sea port city of Mocha during a major offensive against Yemeni government-aligned forces. The group then advanced south, reportedly reaching the coastal town of Dhubab on 11 September, before moving against strategic islands near the Bab al-Mandeb …
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Can Baghdad ever bring Iraq’s militias under state control?
A relative pause in fighting between the United States and Iran that ended in early September has brought the region back into a state of geopolitical tension. As the exchange of strikes, retaliations, and signalling between Washington and Tehran continues, there is a heightened expectation from Washington that the US …
Read More »The Other Side of the Struggle: The Untold History of Palestinian Women’s Resistance
Romana Rubeo traces nearly a century of Palestinian women’s resistance, restoring organizers, fighters, prisoners, journalists and caregivers to their central place in national history. In October 1929, hundreds of Palestinian women gathered in Jerusalem. They came from Jaffa and Haifa, Nablus and Akka, Ramallah, Jenin, Safad and elsewhere, at a …
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