Yemen: Federalization as an Alternative to War
... the Hadi government and the STC. Media reports said that the first indirect contacts took place on September 4 in Jeddah. The “Zero-Sum Game” is Over While the Arab coalition is facing internal problems in the South, its Ansar Allah opponents (Houthis) have taken the opportunity to put additional pressure on their main adversary, Saudi Arabia. On September 14, with the help of drones and missiles, they delivered a strike against two large oil processing facilities in Saudi Arabia, which forced Riyadh to cut oil production by more than half – 5.7 million barrels per day fewer than the usual 9.8 million barrels. Despite the ...