Yemen’s War is Back: A New Battle for Sanaa and the Red Sea Yemen has long been a battleground for proxy wars between regional heavyweights, with Iran backed Houthis pitted against Saudi Arabia and its allies.
The latest escalation of violence marks a new phase in this ongoing conflict, one that threatens to draw in more players and further entangle the region in instability.
The conflict has been marked by fits and starts, with periods of relative calm punctuated by outbreaks of intense fighting.