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The War in Yemen – The Unbeautiful South
Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by The Economist on the war in Yemen.
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Foreign Aid Challenges in Yemen
Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by Le Monde on foreign aid challenges in Yemen
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ISIS’ Scorched Earth: Visual Confirmation of Destruction in the Shaer Field
John Arterbury, Project Manager at Navanti Group, writes about the intricate local power dynamics surrounding the Sheer Field, Syria
Satellite photography made available to Bellingcat courtesy of Planet confirms that parts of the Shaer gas field in Syria’s eastern Homs governorate were indeed destroyed by the Islamic State as suggested. By contrasting the two high-resolution color-corrected images taken by Planet at 34.850, 37.900 – close to the recorded epicenter of the seismic event, which has a several kilometer margin of error – it appears that a significant portion of (…)
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Middle East and North Africa Democratization Seminar
Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, spoke as a panelist for USMCU on Case Studies and Regional Perspectives.
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For the first time, an alleged terrorist has broadcast a confession in real time on Facebook Live
John Arterbury, Project Manager at Navanti Group, was cited by Caitlin Dewey and Sarah Parnass of The Washington Post on live-streaming of terror attacks.
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Could the Coronavirus Put an End to the War in Yemen?
“Could the Coronavirus Put an End to the War in Yemen?” by Charlotte Kamin, Arabian Peninsula analyst was originally published by Just Security.
The Yemen Exchange – An Intensive Online Course on Yemen
Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, spoke on the status and activities of non-state armed groups currently active in Yemen’s civil war at the fifth Yemen Exchange conference, hosted by the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, was held online between May 11-15, 2020.
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Yemen in Focus: Allies turn rivals on strategic Socotra island
Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by the London-based ‘The New Arab’ on the crisis in Socotra Archipelago.
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Radicals’ dominance in Idlib increases risk of tragedy
John Arterbury, Project Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by James Snell, The Arab Weekly on how the radical’s dominance in Idlib increases risk of tragedy.
(…) Last year, Syria’s Idlib province was in direct peril. The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and its Russian allies, having consolidated their control of southern Syria, seemed poised to move on the northern province, where most of the territory was dominated by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. However, the blow did not fall on Idlib because the Syrians and their backers were unwilling to attack such a well-defended enclave. A ceasefire and buffer zone were negotiated and (…)
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A New Yemen Model:
Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, spoke at AEI on the situation in Yemen.
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To destroy Islamic State, we must follow it into the desert
John Arterbury, Project Manager at Navanti Group, writes about how after Raqqa’s fall, the Islamic State retreated to Syria’s vast and overlooked Deir Ezzor province where it was already well entrenched. This arid stretch of eastern Syria straddling the Euphrates river valley had for too long failed to get the attention from policymakers it deserved.
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Quiet Support for Saudis Entangles U.S. in Yemen
Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by By Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times on the how the quiet support for Saudis entangles U.S. in Yemen.
(…) “Over all, the outlook for Yemen remains grim,” said Mohammed Albasha, a Middle East analyst at the Navanti Group in Virginia and a former spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington. “A post-conflict Yemen will be plagued by thousands of casualties, a fractious army, a divided society, a hodgepodge of armed political factions and a cash-strapped central bank.” (…)
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Syrian Rebels Are Using Snapchat to Sell and Show-Off Their Weapons
John Arterbury, Project Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by Ben Sullivan of VICE on the war in Syria and the usage of social media tools such as Snapchat.
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A Tree Grows in Karabakh
John Arterbury, Project Manager at Navanti Group, writes about the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic he visited. Once home to a patchwork of Armenians, Azeris, and nomadic Kurds, a vicious, ethnically driven war in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse technically leaves Azerbaijan in control; but in practice, the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, is headed by Armenians.
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