Daniel Larison

YemenExtra By:Daniel Larison Trump’s statement on the nuclear deal last week included a ridiculous ultimatumthat the other P5+1 governments will ignore, and it also contained a significantly misleading description of the…

YemenExtra BY:Daniel Larison There hasn’t been much Western media coverage of the war on Yemen, and often when there are reports the role of the U.S. in helping to make the war possible is minimized or left out all…

By Daniel Larison Qatar’s foreign minister made a statement recently that I found interesting: “They have no right to impose such measures against a country,” said Thani, adding that if the “blockading” nations are not held…

Daniel Larison Yemen’s cholera epidemic is already the worst in the world, but daily it is growing even worse: The death toll from a major cholera outbreak in Yemen has risen to 1,500, Nevio Zagaria, the World Health Organisation’s…

Daniel Larison As Paul Pillar observed yesterday, Trump’s Riyadh speech amounted to “bowing to the Saudi regime.” The Wall Street Journal is predictably delighted, and encourages the administration to keep bowing: In…

Daniel Larison Western officials never seem to get tired of repeating transparent lies on behalf of Saudi Arabia: Britain’s defence secretary said that Saudi Arabia was “simply defending itself” by bombing Yemen in a military…

Daniel Larison Food imports into Yemen have reached an all-time low: NRC secretary general Jan Egeland called the situation in Yemen “a gigantic failure of international diplomacy”. “Nowhere on earth are as many lives…

 Daniel Larison The Pentagon is pushing for increased U.S. support for an attack on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, despite the fact that this would exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the country and hasten the onset of famine:…