January 22, 2026
maritime security
MENA News Middle East Opinion

Managing Escalation by Losing It: One Year On from America’s Yemen Mistake

By Amb. Dr. Mohamed Qubaty How restraint without Yemeni leverage turned crisis management into a doctrine of permanent escalation. One year after early warnings that U.S. restraint in Yemen was backfiring, the Red Sea crisis has become less an emergency than a condition—managed, mitigated, and endlessly postponed, but never resolved. What was once treated as […]

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Houthis Signal a New Escalation Phase; The Missing Piece of Deterrence Lies Inside Yemen

By: Amb. Dr. Mohamed Qubaty The Houthis’ unusually explicit messaging through al-Masirah marks a dangerous turning point in one of the most volatile security environments in the Middle East. Their announcement declaring the Oman-mediated roadmap dead is not a routine expression of revolutionary rhetoric but a calculated signal of escalation. As analysts such as Fatima […]

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The U.S.’s Red Sea Dilemma vs Yemen’s Evasive Peace Settlement

By Amb. Dr. Mohamed Qubaty What is unfolding today across the Middle East is not the calm after Gaza, but the re-emergence of competing security architectures — a tangled web where trade routes and power balances intersect. From the Red Sea to the Levant, the region faces a defining moment: either it drifts into a […]

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Africa

Will the Horn of Africa turn into another major African flashpoint?

by Scott Morgan The elements are in place for another election that may present a controversial and chaotic results within the next fortnight. It appears that this is a single issue poll that could further inflame tensions. This statement is not about the Presidential Polls that will take place in the United States. The polls […]

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