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Houthi Lane: Al-Houthi Returns to Screen
Al-Houthi breaks 28 days of silence.The Houthi pressure campaign on Saudi peaks then cools. A Houthi fighter captured in Ukraine speaks; Houthi media…
May 21
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Don Quixote de Sana'a: Inside the Houthi Distraction Machine
Tracking the massive gap between the Houthis' grand global narratives and their messy domestic reality.
May 16
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Houthi Lane: One Year After the Ceasefire
Houthis inside a hardened Axis of Resistance posture in the Red Sea and Hormuz. Saudi grievance campaign continues, Bahrain enters rotation, detailed…
May 15
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Axis Weekly: The Houthis Price the Saudi Track
The Tanuma campaign, the Fujairah strike, and the spy-network operation: April 29 – May 5, 2026
May 13
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Why Washington's Red Sea Truce With the Houthis Is Haunting Hormuz
One year after the Trump-Houthi ceasefire in the Red Sea, the same pattern is playing out at the Strait of Hormuz.
May 6
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Bad Guys, Good Cartoons: The Cultural Logic of Iran's Proxy Model
How the Axis of Resistance absorbs cultural talent without suppressing it, and what a Houthi cartoonist's trajectory from dissident to regime artist…
May 4
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Houthi Lane: Ideological Conditioning Continues
Houthis are using the ceasefire interval to consolidate ideologically, manage internal tribal pressure, and reposition rhetorically inside the Axis of…
May 2
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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April 2026
Axis Week in Brief
Putin meets Araghchi in St. Petersburg, Iran sets a three-stage negotiating framework, Hezbollah declares it is not bound by the Lebanese state's…
Apr 30
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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The Kremlin’s Rise in the Ruins of Tehran
A reading of the Russian conversation about the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz blockade, across official policy and commentary, and what it reveals…
Apr 27
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Houthi Lane: Sarkha Week
During the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, Houthis ran ideological conditioning campaigns, signaled proxy solidarity with Hezbollah, and sustained strikes on their…
Apr 24
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Axis Weeks in Brief
The unity of arenas doctrine hardens into policy, Islamabad talks collapse, Iran opens a legal front against five Gulf states, Russia amplifies while…
Apr 22
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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Axis Week in Brief, Houthi Lane
The Houthis did not fire on Israel during the ceasefire but kept firing on Yemeni government forces, and spent the week building the case that no pause…
Apr 16
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Olivier Le Cadre
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Fatima Abo Alasrar
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