ISWNews Analysis Group – The new brigade of “Al-Dara’ Al-Watan” forces was formed in the southern regions of Yemen under the support of Saudi Arabia and by the order of Rashad Al-Alimi, the head of the Presidential Council of the Saudi-backed government.
ISWNews Analysis Group – A drone strike on a vehicle carrying the Al-Qaeda terrorist elements in the east of Marib Governorate, about 120 kilometres east of Yemen’s modern capital, Sanaa, left three terrorists killed.
Following centuries of embarking on colonialism, Britain turned to a multi-layered strategy, whose different aspects consist of a series of political and economic plots as well as the military occupation of islands and oil resources of other countries. They sell arms and provide rich Arab states with military services to fan the flame of war and bloodbath in weak nations, and they loot oil resources and wealth of a crisis-hit state under the pretense of a mediating and peacemaking power along with the United States and China. Yemen is an obvious example of the British colonial policy!
ISWNews Analysis Group – Britain’s embassy in Yemen welcomed and backed a decision by the Supreme Economic Council of the resigned government of Yemen in order to surge the exchange dollar rate by 50% for the import of commodities in the ports supervised by the Saudi coalition.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Shabwah Defence Forces, backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), launched a military operation against the militants of the Islah Party in Nisab and Markhah As Sufla districts in western Shabwah Governorate.
Given the futile experience of the Stockholm Agreement and the partial enforcement of three stages of temporary truce, reaching an inclusive agreement between Ansar Allah movement and the Saudi-led coalition seems to be unlikely and out of reach. Seemingly, in a bid to reach a wide-ranging agreement, the two sides will re-enforce a temporary agreement, including issues such as the implementation of a ceasefire, the prisoner swap, the payment of Yemeni civil servants’ salaries from oil incomes as well as the re-opening of Sana’a Airport and Al Hudaydah Port, and then they will pay heed to internal affairs of the Arab country after resolving external disputes.
ISWNews Analysis Group – A Russian delegation visits the Yemeni capital of Sana’a to hold talks with Ansar Allah officials.
Since the start of the Yemeni war, a total of 94 aircraft of various types have been shot down in the country, of which 63 belong to Saudi Arabia, 22 to the UAE, 6 to the United States, one to Morocco, one to Bahrain and one to Jordan.
ISWNews Analysis Group – Mahdi al-Mashat, President of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen, held talks with the royal delegation of Oman on January 12, conferring the existing issues in the Yemen peace talks.
ISWNews Analysis Group – The supporters and armed men of Islah Party stormed a military base in Lawdar district belonging to the UAE-backed Hizam al-Amni forces and looted their weapons warehouse and set the vehicles on fire.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The Saudi-Backed government of Yemen signed a contract to hand over the coastal area of Ras Sherwin, located in al-Qishn administration in al-Mahra province to an Emirati company named “Ajham” by the order of Moein Abdul Malik, the Prime Minister of the resigned government.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The Southern Transitional Council (STC) attacks on the positions of Ansar Allah in the al-Masharih and Habil Yahya areas in west of Dhale province were failed with heavy losses of Southerners.
