... Yemen: Ideology, Ambitions, and Security,” published by the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) in Saudi Arabia
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. Most of the articles in the volume were written by prominent representatives of various Western schools of ... ... which—according to Sayyid Hussein al-Houthi and his successor, his brother Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the current leader of Ansar Allah—was largely the result of US policies that have plunged the region into chaos.
Of course, the “revelations” ...
... possible that Iran may be playing the “Yemen card” to try and replicate Hezbollah’s “resistance” tactics among the Ansar Allah, yet competition along a totally different axis (inter-Sunni at that) seems to be a more likely explanation. The killing ... ... for the Arabian Peninsula (as well as a number of his relatives and associates) may serve as a trigger for the escalation of Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen. And in terms of confronting the United Arab Emirates, it offers a pretext not only for putting ...
... Riyadh; on the contrary, Saudi Arabia managed to achieve its basic goal: it did limit the Houthi expansion into the country.
Saudi Arabia clearly set itself the goal of weakening North Yemen (the Yemen Arab Republic) by supporting the South. South Yemen ... ... range of political powers in the South is extremely mixed, unlike in the North, which is dominated by two key political forces: Ansar Allah and the General People’s Congress – and establishing a dialogue with both of them proved not merely difficult,...
