Arab World

Mounting anger may prompt a separate measure accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of murder.

Yemen

To Save 10 mn Yemenis from Starvation, UN Pushes De-Escalation at Hodeida Port

AFP

Under discussion on Monday were the fate of the Hodeida, vital to aid and food imports, and Taiz

Bahrain

Is Kushner Covering for Bin Salman Murder Charge so Israel can Usurp Palestinian West Bank?

Juan Cole

Khashoggi’s last words were”I can’t breathe!”

Egypt

Sean Penn Smeared in Arabic Press as “Muslim Brotherhood” for Khashoggi Documentary

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The October 2 murder of dissident Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is still shrouded in some mystery despite extensive leaks by Turkish intelligence and the CIA/ NSA. The Arabic press is reporting that actor Sean Penn has shown up outside the consulate where Khashoggi was murdered with […]

Featured

“A Smoking Saw”: Bin Salman Loses Support of Key GOP Senators with CIA Briefing

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Among the things Saudi Arabia wants from the United States is support for its war on Yemen and permission to buy from US arms corporations state-of-the-art military weaponry. Both things are now in peril, as key Republican senators reacted to a secret briefing by Gina Haspel, director of the Central […]

Featured

Congressional Noose may Tighten around Saudi Crown Prince as Haspel Testifies

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration was so annoyed by the line of the Central Intelligence Agency that Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi that it appears to have kept director Gina Haspel from testifying to Congress last week alongside Secretary of State Mike […]

Petroleum

Qatar, under Saudi Blockade, Quits a Declining OPEC

David Harding

Relations between Riyadh and Doha are at an all-time low

Yemen

Senate tumult reflects popular discontent with Yemen War

Reese Erlich

(48Hills.com) – International relief organizations consider the conflict the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Now, it seems, the US is paying attention. I’m on a low-budget book tour, sleeping in spare bedrooms and munching granola in the kitchens of progressives all along the East Coast. Many had felt beaten down and pessimistic from two years of […]

Yemen

Yemen Hospital Struggles with Number of Malnourished Children

AFP

Khokha, Yemen | AFP | – Khokha (Yemen) (AFP) – Twenty Yemeni children huddle together outside Khokha hospital, hoping to be let into a clinic that serves as a lifeline for tens of thousands. On the narrow pavement, a boy dressed in purple leans limply against his mother. In her lap is a baby with […]