Middle East Minute for February 19, 2021 - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Catch up on some of this week’s biggest headlines from around the Middle East with Al-Monitor. Rockets rain down on Erbil, Turkey raids an Iraqi cave where 13 captives were killed, and an assault on Yemen’s city of Marib is endangering millions of civilians.

Inside Turkey’s raid on Iraqi cave where 13 captives were killed

Metin Gurcan

Major General Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim (C), chief of intelligence of the administration of Yemen's Huthi rebels in control of the capital Sanaa, and other Huthi officials attend an official parade commemorating the sixth anniversary of the Huthi takeover of the capital Sanaa on September 20, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Stakes high in Yemen's Marib province for Houthis, Saudis

A correspondent in Yemen

A correspondent in Yemen

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels man a security checkpoint on Oct. 28, 2009 near a PKK base in the Qandil mountains, near Rania province, in northern Iraq.

Ukrainians held hostage by PKK militants in Iraqi Kurdistan over arms trafficking scam

Amberin Zaman

In Paris, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Yemen fighting

Fighting in Yemen's Marib intensifies amid government advances

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff