Casey Coombs is a researcher at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies. Coombs also works as an independent journalist, reporting extensively on Yemen, where he was based between 2012 and 2015. Prior to Yemen, he reported from United Nations headquarters in New York, covering UN Security Council work on the Arab political uprisings.
He holds BAs in English & Anthropology and an MS in International Relations.
Casey's latest contributions
Politics and Diplomacy
The Houthi Security and Intelligence Service has continued airing forced confessions by former employees of the US embassy in Sana’a, making increasingly outlandish claims of decades-long US spy … Read more
The Yemen Review Quarterly: July-September 2024
On July 19, a Houthi drone reached Tel Aviv, killing one person and wounding ten, the first time the Houthi group (Ansar Allah) has inflicted casualties in an attack against Israel. Israel responded … Read more
Child Soldiers in Marib and Shabwa
The prevalence of child soldiers fighting in Yemen’s war has become common knowledge as Houthi () forces continue to publicly recruit and deploy children in military operations.[1] Other armed groups … Read more
The Yemen Review Quarterly: April-June 2024
Houthi intelligence arrested dozens of local and international aid workers and UN and non-government organization (NGO) staff in early June, alleging they were part of a US-Israeli conspiracy to … Read more
Politics and Diplomacy
Ongoing Houthi maritime attacks and security crackdowns in northern Yemen have given Prime Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak and members of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) plenty of reasons … Read more
