By Garsha Vazirian

Yemen draws a hard line in the skies, imposes a new equation

The bombing of Sana’a airport drags Riyadh into a self-destructive strategic trap

TEHRAN — The desperate Saudi bombardment of Sana’a International Airport on July 13 has backfired, exposing the deep panic of the Riyadh, Washington, and Tel Aviv axis.

By Garsha Vazirian

Yemen's air siege is bravely broken despite Saudi bombardment

Hostile Saudi warplanes fail to stop a historic civilian lifeline

TEHRAN — The brutal aerial embargo that has suffocated the Yemeni people for over a decade has finally collapsed.

Cross-border trade between UAE, Saudi Arabia facing delays amid tensions: Semafor

Cross-border trade between the UAE and Saudi Arabia is facing delays, in a sign that tensions between the Persian Gulf neighbors are rippling through the business world.

Artists from Iran, Lebanon, Yemen create mural in Tehran

TEHRAN - Coinciding with the farewell and funeral ceremonies of the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the international event “Abna al-Sayyid” (children of the Sayyid) was held in Tehran, organized by the Art Bureau.

By Garsha Vazirian

Yemen will ensure the Somaliland scheme becomes a catastrophic trap for Israel

TEHRAN — Any temporary reduction of military hostility by Israel along its northern borders or toward Iran must not be misconstrued as a sign of regional peace. Driven by long-term schemes and intense domestic political crises, including the looming prospect of early Knesset elections, Benjamin Netanyahu remains structurally dependent on a perpetual state of warfare for his political survival.

By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi 

Karbala, where resistance was born

HAFIZABAD, Pakistan - Muharram is not a month of grief; it is a school of resistance.

Amnesty wants US strike on Yemen to be studied as war crime

Amnesty International has called for a United States air strike on a migrant detention center in Yemen to be investigated as a possible war crime, Al Jazeera reported.

By Sondoss Al Asaad 

From “life or death over Yemen” to the Iran question: When American threats fail to deliver

SOUTH LEBANON — The dramatic account published in the American Air & Space Forces Magazine about two F-16 pilots narrowly escaping surface-to-air missiles over Yemen was intended as a story of heroism.

By Sheida Sabzehvari

Iran will not fight alone this time

From Baghdad to Beirut, Tehran’s partners signal a wider war if US strikes

TEHRAN – As U.S. naval deployments in the Persian Gulf intensify and Washington hints at the possibility of renewed aggression, a constellation of Iran’s allied forces across West Asia are issuing coordinated warnings that a second war against the country would ignite a region-wide confrontation — one that neither the United States nor Israel, they say, is prepared to contain.

Yemen’s crisis deepens amid UAE–Israel nexus

TEHRAN – The latest turmoil in Yemen underscores how regional rivalries and foreign entanglements continue to destabilize the country. 

By Shahrokh Saei 

Peace on paper, fire on the ground: Trump’s seven-nation strikes in 2025

TEHRAN – Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Donald Trump has tried to cast himself as a peacemaker, insisting that his second term has brought an end to conflicts that long tied down the United States abroad. He has spoken of breaking with what he calls America’s era of “endless wars,” presenting his foreign policy as restraint, not intervention.

By staff writer 

Saudi ‘red line’ and UAE’s adventurism in Yemen

TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia has framed its national security as a “red line,” warning it will act decisively against any foreign military support for separatist groups in Yemen.

By Garsha Vazirian

Six countries, three seas, one voracious war machine

A year of Tel Aviv’s fear doctrine—sovereignty dismantled across six nations, maritime terror targeting humanitarian aid

TEHRAN – In 2025, Israel acted as a borderless war machine, unleashing over 10,631 military attacks across six nations—Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, and Qatar—while extending its brutality to maritime terrorism against aid ships in the waters of Malta, Greece, and Tunisia.

By Sondoss Al Asaad 

Yemen and mirage of Somaliland: Sovereignty, deterrence, and battle over the Red Sea

BEIRUT—The renewed focus on the so-called “Somaliland” is not an isolated African issue but a deliberate geopolitical maneuver tied to the security of the Red Sea and the balance of power in West Asia.

By staff writer

Is the UAE sailing Israel’s ship in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea?

TEHRAN – The United Arab Emirates has long sought to project itself as a modern, pragmatic power, striking a balance between economic dynamism and regional influence. Yet its deepening partnership with Israel reveals a trajectory that is less about stability and more about embedding Israeli interests into fragile states. From southern Yemen to Somaliland and Sudan, Abu Dhabi’s actions increasingly resemble those of a proxy, enabling Israel’s ambitions in one of the world’s most sensitive maritime corridors.

By staff writer 

UAE–Israel partnership casts a shadow on southern Yemen

TEHRAN – Southern Yemen is no longer just a battleground between local factions. It is becoming a testing ground for foreign ambitions, with the United Arab Emirates pushing separatist forces into new territory while deepening its partnership with Israel. These moves are reshaping the conflict in ways that go far beyond Yemen’s borders.

By Sondoss Al Asaad

Implications for Yemen’s prisoner exchange

BEIRUT—A historic breakthrough has emerged in Yemen’s humanitarian landscape with the signing of an agreement to release 1,700 prisoners from the army and popular committees in exchange for 1,200 detainees from the opposite side, including seven Saudis and 23 Sudanese.

By Sondoss Al Asaad 

Israel’s role in fragmenting Yemen: Geopolitics, proxies, and strategic waterways

BEIRUT—The war on Yemen has never been merely an internal conflict. From its earliest stages, it has been shaped by regional and international actors seeking to redraw the country’s political and geographic map. 

By Sondoss Al Asaad 

Yemen: Renewed mandate for liberation amid escalating threats

BEIRUT — On the 58th anniversary of Yemen’s independence from British colonial rule, hundreds of thousands of Yemenis poured into Sana’a’s Al-Sabeen Square and into major public arenas across multiple provinces in a powerful display of national unity and revolutionary resolve. 

By Sondoss Al Asaad 

Joint intelligence plot against Yemen uncovered

BEIRUT — The Yemeni Interior Ministry announced on Saturday a major intelligence breakthrough, revealing the dismantling of a sophisticated spy network operating under a joint operations room managed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Israeli Mossad, and Saudi intelligence.