Recent shifts in Yemen’s political landscape suggest the country is entering a new phase, marked above all by a distinctly Saudi-led recalibration of how the Yemen file is managed, following the retreat of the Emirati role.

In a move that sent political shockwaves through Iraq, the Official Gazette published a decision listing Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi group as terrorist organizations, a step the Iraqi central bank later walked back, calling it an “unintentional mistake.”

The assassination of Houthi chief of staff Mohammed al-Ghamari exposed major vulnerabilities in the group’s leadership, raising questions about their military resilience and regional impact.

Amir Ohana is the first openly gay Speaker of the Knesset; he lives with another man and they have adopted twins, and his election to the position has drawn sharp criticism from rabbis and ultra-Orthodox officials who refuse to shake his hand.

As pressure mounts on Hezbollah from both inside Lebanon and abroad, the group’s deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem made a striking overture to Riyadh, urging Saudi Arabia to turn the page and rally around a common enemy: the Israeli Occupation.