Mohammed Basha, founder and chief analyst at Basha Report Risk Consulting, said political infighting and a fragmented military within Yemen’s internationally recognized government are obstructing operations against the Houthis. He warned that divided command-and-control and eight competing army factions make it impossible to defeat the Houthis, and that internal strife is the main factor enabling Houthi advances. Basha added tensions within the anti-Houthi coalition have persisted for decades, f

Former CIA officer David J. Lash, charged with inflating pay via false declarations and stealing public funds, has reached an interim plea agreement with federal prosecutors because the case involves substantial classified material. Prosecutors and Lash’s lawyers filed a joint court document on the 10th but did not disclose the agreement’s terms. A federal judge on the 11th extended the deadline to formally indict Lash to Oct. 8 to give parties time to finalize a deal; both sides said a public trial would be highly complex given the classified evidence.

俄罗斯总统助理表示，俄方认为阿布扎比是举行乌克兰问题会谈的可接受地点。