UK and international response to Houthis in the Red Sea 2024/25
The UK and US have struck Houthi sites following the group's attacks on Red Sea shipping. What is the background and situation in Yemen?
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Lebanon 2014 (542 KB , PDF)
• Lebanon is perhaps the most diverse country in the Middle East and it has a history of instability and civil war.
• The bomb that assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri still reverberates around the country
• The country’s politics are complicated and prone to deadlock between the two main factions, pro-Western and pro-Syrian
• The present Prime Minister has only recently been able to form a government, many months after assuming his post
• There has been an upsurge of sectarian violence, as the Syria conflict threatens to spread into Lebanon
• Around a fifth of Lebanese residents are refugees from the Syrian conflict — an enormous burden
• The UK has given the Lebanese armed forces some aid to help with controlling the Syrian border
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Lebanon 2014 (542 KB , PDF)
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