A tribal source in Al-Jawf told Sheba Intelligence that an African migrant smuggling cell is allegedly attempting to move ancient inscriptions and bronze statues through routes close to the Yemeni-Saudi border. A tribal source in Yemen’s northern go...
Exclusive information obtained by Sheba Intelligence indicates that the Houthi movement is preparing for a naval maneuver on Yemen’s western coast that simulates the closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait. According to the information, the prepara...
Giants Brigades say the intercepted shipment included drone components, GPS guidance devices, servers, engines, and equipment used in manufacturing explosive boats bound for Houthi-controlled Hodeidah. Yemeni pro-government Giants Brigades said they inter...
A landmine in Yemen can close a road, empty a farm, delay aid, or kill a child years after the fighting has moved elsewhere. A sea mine can do something larger: threaten fishermen, contaminate coastal waters, disrupt ports, and turn parts of the Red Sea and Bab al-Man...
Exclusive intelligence points to a camouflaged missile shipment, more than ten missile and drone sites, and new reconnaissance drone platforms as the Houthis seek to contain a widening tribal crisis in Al-Rayyan. Sheba Intelligence has obtained private intelligence...
Secret security measures include relocating senior figures, disguising former residences as meeting sites, and appointing undisclosed intelligence officers linked to internal information cells. Exclusive information obtained by Sheba Intellige...
Exclusive: intelligence sources have told Sheba Intelligence that Yemen’s Houthi movement is working to establish and activate a training camp in Somaliland, while separate information points to the arrival of additional UAE-linked fighters affiliated ...
Sheba Intelligence monitoring records around 18 undisclosed strikes in Sanaa over three months, including two incidents on Friday, June 26, amid limited international reporting and Houthi silence. A series of hidden and largely unreported strikes has targeted Houth...
Exclusive information obtained by Sheba Intelligence indicates that a technical cell linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Houthi “Jihad Council” is studying alternative launch sites away from Yemen’s western coast amid fears of sudden targeting. &nb...
Targeted killings in Aden and Hadramawt expose a widening security vacuum after the STC rebellion and complicate Saudi-backed efforts to restore normality in government-held areas. The assassination of Mohammed Aidha, the Al Arabiya and Al Hadath correspondent ...
Piracy is gradually returning to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia and Yemen, raising concerns that an old maritime threat is reappearing at a time when international naval attention is heavily focused on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab. Recent mari...
Al-Rayyan, a remote desert area in Yemen’s Al-Jawf governorate northeast of Marib, is emerging as a new pressure point against the Houthis after the release of Sheikh Hamad bin Rashid bin Fadgham al-Hazmi. The case is no longer only about the detention of a t...
A social media campaign led by Yemeni writer and activist Osama al-Jaser has moved beyond a personal online dispute. It has become part of a wider Yemeni debate over religion, memory, Houthi rule and the meaning of the state after more than a decade of war. The ca...
More than 83,000 migrants entered Yemen in the first five months of 2026, exposing how a humanitarian route from the Horn of Africa is increasingly intersecting with smuggling networks, Houthi influence and Saudi border security concerns. Sheba Intelligence previously warned that Afri...
A German media investigation into suspected fraud in GIZ-funded work in Yemen has reopened a wider question that has followed the country’s aid economy for years: how were billions of dollars in humanitarian and development funds monitored in one of the world’s most di...
Yemen’s recent push to strengthen local authorities has reopened a sensitive debate over decentralization, federalism and the future shape of the state after years of war. The debate gained momentum after the National Conference on Partnership and Integration b...
Sheba Intelligence has obtained exclusive information indicating that the Houthi group, through its external intelligence sector and a specialized intelligence station operating in Muscat, has sought to obtain Chinese satellite imagery, coordinates and related geospatial capabilities to ...
Saudi Arabia’s latest financial support to Yemen’s internationally recognized government reflects Riyadh’s continued effort to prevent economic collapse in the country and contain the wider security risks such instability could pose to the Red Sea, Bab al-M...
A political controversy in Yemen over the status of Socotra has opened a wider debate about sovereignty, maritime security and the role of regional powers in shaping local authority along the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. The dispute began after Socotra Governor Raafat Al...
