BEIRUT: There has been no improvement in the living conditions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon over the past year, experts from …

  Ross Mountain, the U.N. resident Coordinator in Lebanon, has warned that the needs of the region’s states, including Lebanon, are growing …

Armin Rosen

Saudi Arabia began a military operation in Yemen on March 25 to counter Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, who have dissolved the Yemeni state and forced president Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi to flee the country by boat.

The operation is a Saudi attempt to reclaim a strategic frontier from its primary regional adversary, or to at least limit Iran's potentially reach into the Arabian peninsula. But it's also becoming rapidly apparent that the Yemen operation, called Operation Decisive Storm, is driven by something more than just Saudi-Iranian competition.

Every single Arab monarchy (except for Oman) is involved in the effort, including distant Morocco — a sign that governments ruling a combined 90 million people across 8 countries believes that the prestige and core interests of traditional conservative powers are at stake in Yemen. 

  The cabinet referred on Thursday the crime of Btedei to the judicial council, two weeks after a judge indicted eight members …