Yemen

Rania Khalek is joined by Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official and spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarallah, referred to incorrectly in the West as the “Houthis,” to discuss Yemen’s intervention against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He explains what it will take to stop their attacks on ships in the Red Sea,...

After carrying out US strikes on Yemen this week in retaliation for its solidarity with Palestine, the Biden administration announced that it is once again designating Yemen’s Ansar Allah (also called the Houthis) as a “terrorist” organization. The impacts of Ansar Allah’s embargo of all ships destined for Israel are...

In response to Yemen’s attacks on Israel-bound ships in the Red Sea, the US announced the formation of a new naval task force to protect vessels bound for the apartheid state. Following the announcement, the spokesman of the Yemeni Armed Forces, Yahya Saree, said that Yemen would not be deterred...

The Yemeni Armed Forces announced that it had launched two direct attacks on Israeli ships in the Bab Al-Mandab Strait off Yemen’s coast on December 3. The spokesperson for the Forces said that the attacks were in response to the demands of the Yemeni people and the “free people of...

Professor Shireen Al-Adeimi, Yemeni-born anti-war activist & Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, joined Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek on The Freedom Side to discuss the ongoing Saudi and Emirate destruction of Yemen and the role of the US and UK in making it possible.