by Riza Kumar | Jun 17, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Saddam’s Former Army is Secret of Baghdadi’s Success Samia Nakhoul / Reuters A year after declaring his caliphate, it is clear that the secret of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s success is the army and state he has built from the remnants of...
by Scott Monje | Jun 1, 2015 | Monitor
The U.N.-administered camp at Mazrak, northwest Yemen is now stretched beyond capacity after a Saudi military offensive against the Houthis starting early November uprooted a fresh wave of IDP families. (Photo credit: Hugh Macleod/IRIN) Yemen had drawn little...