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												  The ISIS Branch in Yemen and Its Role in the Power StrugglesDecember 11, 2016 The ISIS Branch in Yemen and Its Role in the Power Struggles ISIS operatives drive along a coastal road in Yemen, apparently in the region of the port city of Aden (dailymotion.com, February 21. 2016) Overview 1. Yemen lies at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Its population is estimated at more than 26 million, two thirds of which are Sunni Muslims, and one third Shi'ite- Yazidis. Yemen has disintegrated as a state, has no effective, stable central administration and is governed by armed tribal-like organizations. For decades the Yemenis have been waging civil wars of fluctuating intensity. The Middle East upheaval that began in 2011 only served to increase the country's chronic instability. 2. Yemen's location gives it great geostrategic importance. It commands the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, which leads to the Indian Ocean. It is a main sea route for ships and oil tankers on their way from the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Yemen is also close to the Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia), and can be used by terrorist organizations as a gateway to the entire African continent. Yemen has a long border with Saudi Arabia (1,700 kilometers, 156-16 156-16 2 2 more than 1,000 miles) which has become a turbulent area of subversion against Saudi Arabia because of the Houthi rebel takeover of the northern part of the country.
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											Stability and Instability in the Gulf Region in 2016: a Strategic Net AssessmentStrategic Net Assessment: Stability in the Gulf Region 13.6.2016 AHC 1 Stability and Instability in the Gulf Region in 2016: A Strategic Net Assessment By Anthony H. Cordesman With the assistance of Max Markusen and Eric P. Jones Working Draft: June 15, 2016 Please provide comments to [email protected] Cover: MOHAMMED HUWAIS / Stringer Strategic Net Assessment: Stability in the Gulf Region 13.6.2016 AHC 2 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 7 I. KEY CHALLENGES TO REGIONAL AND NATIONAL STABILITY ............................................ 8 KEY AREAS OF RISK .................................................................................................................................................. 8 TRENDS IN CONFLICT AND SECURITY PROBLEMS ............................................................................................... 9 TRENDS IN POLITICS, GOVERNANCE, DEMOGRAPHICS, AND ECONOMICS ................................................... 10 ILLUSTRATING THE FORCES THAT SHAPE THE GULF REGION ....................................................................... 10 THE IMPACT OF ISLAM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ITS FUTURE ....................................................................... 11 Figure I.1 The Growing Global Impact of Islam ................................................................................ 12 Figure I.2: Differing National Attitudes Towards the Role of Islam in Governance and the Rule
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												  Yemen: Stemming the Rise of a Chaos State Peter Salisbury Chatham House Chatham ContentsYemen: Stemming the Rise of a Chaos State Stemming Yemen: Research Paper Peter Salisbury Middle East and North Africa Programme | May 2016 Yemen: Stemming the Rise of a Chaos State Peter Salisbury Peter Chatham House Contents Summary 2 1 Introduction 3 2 Yemen’s War in Brief Historical Context 7 3 The Seeds of Civil War: Yemen in Transition 13 4 The Road to War: the Houthi Takeover 21 5 An Unfolding Conflict 26 6 Another Time, Another Country: the Social and Security Impacts of the Civil War 35 7 Current Approaches and Prospects for Peace 37 8 Conclusions and Lessons Learned 40 Abbreviations and Acronyms 43 About the Author 44 Acknowledgments 44 1 | Chatham House Yemen: Stemming the Rise of a Chaos State Summary • Yemen’s civil war has reached a stalemate in which an outright military victory by any of the many parties to the conflict is highly unlikely. Although widely presented as a war between two distinct coalitions, the conflict is in fact multipolar, fuelled by regional and international support for the various parties involved in the fighting. • There is broad consensus among international policy-makers that the only way the conflict can be brought to a sustainable end is through political mediation. Yet the current UN-led peace process has not been structured in a way that reflects the complexity of the dynamics in play, and some policy-makers currently lack the capacity to develop a deep understanding of the situation in order to consider a more inclusive structure for peacebuilding and diplomacy. • Maintaining the illusion that either the internationally recognized president, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and his allies, or the alliance between the Zaydi Shia Houthi rebels and the supporters of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, are representative of all the warring groups in Yemen would be a mistake.
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												  The Challenges of Building a National Army in YemenThe Challenges of Building a National Army in Yemen By Zoltan Barany Senior Associate, CSIS Burke Chair Working Draft: July 14, 2016 Please provide comments to [email protected] Credit: MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images Barany: The Challenges of Building a National Army 2 BIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................................................. 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .......................................................................................................................... 3 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 4 I. YEMEN’S ARMIES FROM OTTOMAN RULE TO UNIFICATION ............................................... 6 SOLDIERS IN YEMEN UNDER THE OTTOMAN AND BRITISH EMPIRES ............................................................. 6 THE ARMED FORCES OF SOUTH YEMEN (1967-90) ......................................................................................... 7 THE YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC AND ITS ARMY ................................................................................................... 10 TRIBALISM AND THE MILITARY ........................................................................................................................... 12 II. FROM UNIFICATION TO THE ‘ARAB SPRING’ (1990-2011) .............................................. 15 UNIFICATION, THE CIVIL WAR OF 1994, AND THE ARMED FORCES ...........................................................
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												  Yemen: Assassination of Right to Life8 YEMEN: ASSASSINATION OF RIGHT TO LIFE HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS SEPTEMBER 2019 YEMEN: ASSASSINATION OF RIGHT TO LIFE HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS SEPTEMBER 2019 YEMEN: ASSASSINATION OF RIGHT TO LIFE RIGHT RADAR: monitoring human rights Human Rights Report on Political Assassinations INTRODUCTION In this report, assassinations refer to killings that have a political nature and whose parties do not have personal rivalry. One of our biggest motives for issuing this report is our desire to remember the rights of the victims and their sacrifices and it is a contribution to supporting human rights work by monitoring and documenting the most prominent cases of assassinations that Rights Radar has managed to cover during the last few years. It is also a contribution to achieving justice for the victims and their families in the hope that, by providing crucial information, it can lead to the perpetrators being revealed and carrying out retribution against them so that they do not escape from punishment. | 4 | YEMEN: ASSASSINATION OF RIGHT TO LIFE RIGHT RADAR: monitoring human rights Human Rights Report on Political Assassinations EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Aden Governorate comes at the top of the The wave of assassinations started from the list of Yemeni governorates in which 134 capital Sana’a and the governorates of Dhamar, cases of assassination were recorded. It is Ibb and Taizz and reached its peak in Aden since followed by Taizz Governorate with 113 cases the coup of the Houthi armed group against of assassination, Sana’a with 42 cases, Abyan the internationally recognized government in and Lahij with 32 cases, Al Bayda with 29 Yemen.