The Houthis and the Israel-Iran Conflict

Iran aims to sap Israel’s strength by having its proxies attack from many directions.

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Israeli warplanes needed just under three hours on July 21 to travel 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) to their targets in Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah. The operation, retaliation for a deadly drone attack launched against Tel Aviv by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, was officially intended to disrupt Iranian weapons shipments to the Yemen-based group. However, […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari