Arab Revolutions

Was the Middle East better off under dictatorships? It is certainly tempting to think so when one looks at conflicts in the region today, from Yemen toLibya to Syria.

On the night of March 25 one hundred Saudi warplanes bombed strategic targets inside Yemen under the control of the Houthi rebels.

President Obama spoke with Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi today regarding the U.S.-Egyptian military assistance relationship and regional developments, including in Libya and Yemen.

The airstrikes were announced by the Saudi ambassador to the United States as five Gulf states said they will answer Hadi's plea for intervention against the Shiite militia.

Houthi fighters and loyalists of Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi are locked in a power struggle that diplomats say risks drawing in neighboring Saudi Arabiaand its main regional rival Iran.

The Sisi government, clearly eager for foreign investment, wants to appear as a legitimately elected government playing a constructive role in the region.

Egypt’s current foreign policy activism is more show than substance. The temptation to expand this approach by intervening in Libya will only reveal Egypt’s vulnerabilities and deepen them further.

Those who seek to impede this process and Libya’s democratic transition, four years after the revolution, will not be allowed to condemn Libya to chaos and extremism.

Congress approved President Barack Obama's request to authorize training the rebels in September.

In Yemen, the world’s most dangerous jihadi group is both the government’s enemy and its ally of convenience.