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Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by The Economist on the war in Yemen.

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.

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.

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.

Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by NRC Handelsblad, a daily evening newspaper published in the Netherlands.

“De Houthi’s hebben terrein gewonnen en snel de leegte opgevuld die de verdeelde en in ballingschap verblijvende regering had laten ontstaan”, zegt Mohammed Albasha, Jemendeskundige van Navanti, een adviesbureau in Washington.

Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was quoted by L’Orient-Le Jour, a leading French-language daily newspaper in Lebanon.

La capture du navire intervient dans un contexte d’escalade générale dans la guerre au Yémen, et pour le chercheur Mohammed Al Basha, ce rare incident maritime est “le signe d’une escalade politique et militaire contre la coalition”. “Observateurs et responsables politiques craignent depuis longtemps que la guerre au Yémen ne déborde sur la mer Rouge et ne déstabilise les voies de navigation essentielles”, pour le transport maritime international, observe ce spécialiste de la péninsule arabique au centre de réflexion Navanti Group.

Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a daily published newspaper in Frankfurt.

Mehrere Beobachter berichten jetzt übereinstimmend, die Zeit sei vorbei, in der Deeskalation über allem stehe – auch in Washington. “Viele amerikanische Regierungsfunktionäre und politische Entscheidungsträger sind zu der Auffassung gelangt, dass militärischer Druck das letzte Mittel ist, um die Houthis wieder an den Verhandlungstisch zu bringen“, sagt Mohammed Albasha, Jemen-Experte von der in den Vereinigten Staaten ansässigen Beratungsfirma Navanti Group.

Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by By العربي الجديد, a London Arabic daily newspaper.

أكد محمد باشا، وهو كبير محللي شؤون شبه الجزيرة لدى مجموعة “نافانتي” الاستشارية الأميركية، أن المدنيين هم الضحية الرئيسية لأي تصعيد عسكري على الساحة اليمنية لأطراف الصراع والقوى الداعمة لهم بصورة مباشرة أو غير مباشرة، والذي يأخذ منحى تصاعديا منذ بداية 2022، على الرغم من تواصل الإدانات الصادرة عن المجتمع الدولي والإقليم المحيط.

Robert Uniacke, a senior Middle East and North Africa analyst at Navanti Group, wrote an expert’s point of view on current events in Libya. Uniacke argues that Libya could be Putin’s tump card as global oil markets have already felt the pinch of Libyan oil shutdowns helped along by Russian mercenaries.

John Arterbury, Africa and Europe Project Manager, at Navanti Group, was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

Artebury said that the Russians are also benefiting from maneuvering on territory controlled by Moscow-backed separatists who claimed roughly a third of the Donbas region before the wider war began. Adding that Russia won’t have to deal with the supply-line setbacks it faced in the initial phase of the invasion, when it had amassed as many as 190,000 troops along Ukraine’s borders. “They can equip directly from the separatist and border areas, and wouldn’t have to route them through Belarus and other areas,” he reported. “They have a shorter head-to-tail logistic supply line, which would presumably allow them more cohesive advances,” he said

Rida Lyammouri, a senior Sahel advisor at Navanti Group co-authored a publication for the United States Institute of Peace, an American federal institution tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide.

The publication titled, “Community-Based Armed Groups: A Problem or Solution?” explores how the presence of Community-Based Armed Groups (CBAGs), a subset of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) raises issues that force a rethink of local implementation of peacebuilding processes

Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by Middle East Eye on diplomats push for extension of truce in Yemen.

“The Houthis still harbour military aspirations, while the Saudis and Emiratis no longer have the military appetite to continue the fight, and the Houthis are well aware of that,” Mohammed al-Basha, a senior Arabian peninsula analyst at the Navanti Group, told MEE. “Yemen has entered the stalemate phase of no peace and no war,” Basha adds.

Mohammed al-Basha, senior Arabian peninsula analyst at Navanti Group, said the Rwabee’s capture looked like an “escalation” by the rebels. “The seizure of the UAE flagged vessel signals both a political and military escalation to the Saudi-led coalition,” he told AFP. “Observers and policymakers have long feared that the war in Yemen could spill over into the Red Sea and destabilise vital shipping lanes.”

Friday edition of The Los Angeles Times quotes a Navanti analyst: But with the Houthis unwilling to meet even with the U.N. envoy, that balance may be hard to achieve, said Mohammad Basha, a Yemen expert at the U.S.-based Navanti Group, a consultancy. The path for peace and stability in Yemen seems far-fetched at this stage,” he said. “Houthi leadership had gone on the record and said they will not stop military operations until every inch of Yemen is liberated.”

Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by FRANCE 24’s Arabic channel.

ويرى كبير المحللين اليمنيين في شركة الأبحاث “نافانتي غروب” الأميركية محمّد الباشا أنه “على الرغم من أن أبو ظبي قامت بسحب معداتها العسكرية من اليمن، إلا أن أنصار الله (الحوثيين) يربطون العمليات العسكرية لألوية العمالقة في شبوة (..) بالإمارات التي لعبت دورا رئيسيا في تشكيل وتدريب وتسليح هذه القوات”.

Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was quoted by Infobae, a Spanish news website based in Argentina.

Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, was interviewed by Le Monde on foreign aid challenges 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.

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.

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.

John Arterbury, Project Manager at Navanti Group, writes about the intricate local power dynamics surrounding the Sheer Field, Syria.

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.

Mohammed Albasha, Communication and Client Engagement Manager at Navanti Group, spoke at AEI on the situation in Yemen.

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.