Yemen

The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.

They started out as a family enterprise but have burgeoned into a movement with tens of thousands of fighters and become a formidable geopolitical force.

U.N. negotiators have found a solution to the F.S.O. Safer, a rotting tanker off the coast of Yemen, which threatens to spill more than a million barrels of oil, but funding for the operation has come up short.

Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.

Robin Wright joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the crisis in the Gulf and whether the two countries are bluffing about going to war.

The attack in the heart of Saudi Arabia on Saturday was audacious; it set a precedent for the targets, tactics, and scope of warfare in the Persian Gulf and has global ramifications.

Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton, has met M.B.S., communicated with him via WhatsApp, and voiced support for the crown prince’s agenda.

Wrongly defining the struggles gripping the Middle East encourages misguided remedies.

The conflict has killed at least ten thousand civilians, and the country faces famine. Why are we still involved?