In late May, security authorities in Hadramout, eastern Yemen, announced the dismantling of four illegal gold mining and processing workshops in the city of Mukalla, only one week after a similar workshop had been seized. The Criminal Investigation Department of Hadr...
Somalia’s 2025 was not defined by security challenges alone. It was a year in which the country’s fight against Al-Shabaab intersected with a sensitive security transition, deepening federal tensions, unresolved constitutional disputes, and growing...
Abaad Studies and Research Center has launched the Early Warning and Strategic Indicators Observatory as part of its research programs. The Observatory is designed as a platform for monitoring and analyzing daily information and tracking political, economic, milita...
The current Iran-Israel escalation has pushed the region into a more dangerous phase. On Monday, June 8, 2026, Israel said it had struck military targets in western and central Iran after Tehran launched missiles toward Israel in response to an earlier Israeli str...
The arrest of a Yemeni man suspected of fighting for the Islamic State group in Somalia’s Puntland region has raised fresh concerns over the growing cross-border nature of ISIS activity in the Horn of Africa and the security risks facing the Gulf of Aden maritime corridor. Puntl...
Exclusive information obtained by Sheba Intelligence indicates that the Houthi group raised its military readiness along Yemen’s western coast and in Hajjah governorate hours before announcing missile attacks and threatening Israeli-linked shipping in the Red Sea. &...
Yemen’s Interior Ministry Records 20,610 Criminal Cases in Government-Held Areas in 2025 An annual statistical report issued by Yemen’s General Directorate of Command and Control at the Ministry of Interior recorded 20,610 criminal cases&nb...
Yemen’s crisis in 2025 was not shaped by a single battlefield, political dispute, or humanitarian emergency. It was a year in which the conflict expanded into a broader struggle over sovereignty, state authority, regional influence, maritime security, and econom...
Sudan’s war in 2025 moved beyond a contest for military control. It became a struggle over territory, legitimacy, humanitarian survival, regional influence, and the future shape of the Sudanese state. At the beginning of the year, the Sudanese Armed Forces ap...
Recent popular protests in the provinces of Aden and Hadramout indicate escalating tensions in these critical southern and eastern regions, which are currently entangled in a political conflict over control of power and resources. Aden: Abduction of Officer Sparks Pot...
In mid-June 2018, Saudi Arabia launched a special program called "Masam" under the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center to remove war landmines in Yemen. This initiative came in response to increasing casualties from landmines planted by the Houthi group across the co...
In a significant development, sources have revealed that the United States authorized Israel to execute a strike on Hodeida Port. This decision came as a direct response to a Houthi drone attack that struck central Tel Aviv near the U.S. Embassy, resulting in the death of at least...
In response to ongoing threats from the Houthis targeting both the Yemeni government and Saudi Arabia, the internationally recognized Yemeni government has decided to reverse recent decisions made by the Central Bank of Yemen. These decisions, aimed at regaining control over the coun...
The recent Israeli attacks and airstrikes on the Port of Hodeida are exacerbating the humanitarian suffering and economic difficulties faced by Yemeni citizens due to a nearly decade-long war. The Israeli strike targeted the Port of Hodeida, an oil refinery, ...
Introduction: Yemen is grappling with a disturbing rise in rape cases, transforming what were once rare and isolated incidents into a pervasive threat to the social fabric. The situation is particularly alarming as many victims are minors and children. Areas controlled by the Ho...
Israel launched an attack on Yemen's Hodeida port today, deploying twenty aircraft from a base in the Negev Desert in southern Israel. The planes flew 1,800 kilometers to strike the port, Ras Katheeb power station, an oil refinery, and fuel tanks. The exact number of c...
Yemen is now enduring its tenth year of a devastating civil war, the deadliest and most costly in modern time. Various factions have clashed on military, political, and economic fronts, while diplomatic efforts have largely failed to provide effective solutions. Observers of Yemeni...
The supercarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt arrived in the Red Sea yesterday, transferring from the Indo-Pacific region where she had been operating since the beginning of 2024. A short statement by the U.S. Central Command said, "The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group...
Following the failure of the Muscat meeting between the Yemeni government and the Houthis to achieve a breakthrough, the Houthis are considering various scenarios to retaliateto the Central Bank of Yemen's escalation. Their primary focus is to secure a victory in the economic sector ...
Sources within the Houthi group told Sheba Intelligence that the group's leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, has called for a special meeting with military and political leaders in their stronghold of Sa’dah. Eyewitnesses reported seeing many leaders leaving Sana'a and Hodeida i...