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MENA politics is fluid. Parties merge, split, reform; leaders are elected, dismissed, or killed; regimes fall. The party and politician pages capture the dataset as it stands now; Pulse captures the movement — what just happened, what's under way, what's rumored but not yet formal. Each event carries a confidence rating and the same per-field source citations as every other Tayyar entity.
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Yemen January 11, 2025 US and UK begin sustained strike campaign on Houthi targets
The first Biden-era coalition strike against Houthi positions in Yemen came in January 2024; the second Trump administration scaled up the campaign in early 2025, targeting drone production sites, missile launchers, and Houthi leadership figures. The strikes failed to stop Red Sea shipping attacks but degraded Houthi capabilities; the campaign continued through mid-2025 before an unofficial pause.
- Confirmed Other Yemen November 19, 2023
Yemen: Houthis begin attacking Red Sea shipping in solidarity with Gaza
Six weeks into the Gaza war, Houthi forces in Yemen began launching missiles and drones at commercial shipping in the Red Sea — and at southern Israel — framing the attacks as a blockade of vessels linked to Israel. The campaign reduced Suez Canal traffic by more than half, rerouted global container flows around Africa, and drew sustained US and UK airstrikes in 2024–25. The Houthis emerged regionally elevated; their critics noted Yemeni civilians were enduring a separate, deepening famine.
- Confirmed Other Yemen March 26, 2015
Saudi-led coalition military intervention in Yemen
A Saudi-led nine-country coalition began military operations against the Houthis in Yemen on 2015-03-26 (Operation Decisive Storm). The intervention has continued in various forms for over a decade; the resulting humanitarian crisis is the worst in the world by some UN measures.
- Confirmed Coalition collapsed Yemen September 21, 2014
Houthis take Sanaa
Houthi forces, allied at the time with ousted ex-President Saleh, took control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on 2014-09-21, forcing the recognized government south to Aden. Triggered the Saudi-led coalition's March 2015 military intervention and the ongoing Yemen war.
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