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Negotiations are moving again, but an agreement to end the foreign interventions in the country would be just the first step in ending the civil war.
The label misunderstands the conflict and would harm Yemeni civilians more than the Houthis themselves.
The Emirati intervention in Yemen ramped up, then drew down. What were they hoping to accomplish?
The growing coronavirus outbreak is compounding the toll of the country's civil war and other humanitarian disasters.
The Trump administration is considering ending one of the few congressional checks on arms sales to foreign countries.
The new leader of al-Qaeda's Yemen-based franchise inherits a weakened organization.
New rivalries among the Gulf states and beyond are redefining the region.
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
Editor’s Note: Yemen's civil war has dragged on for years, and the destruction and suffering there intensified after the Saudi and UAE intervention in 2015. Although Riyadh's role gets far more attention than Abu Dhabi's, it was UAE forces that often had the biggest impact on the ground. Earlier this year, however, the UAE announced it was suddenly ending its intervention. Michael Knights of the Washington Institute spent considerable time with UAE forces in Yemen, and he assesses the lessons that the UAE is learning, and should learn, from its intervention.
Over the past several weeks, a new front has opened up in the legal fight over U.S. support for the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen: the president’s authority to pursue arms sales. For months, congressional opponents of the Yemen conflict have blocked certain arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners, citing human rights and other concerns.