... United Arab Emirates is paying for telecommunications, food supplies, roads and other infrastructure there. Naturally, supporters of an independent South Yemen now look favourably upon that country.
So it is 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 of Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was once an incredibly important figure for the Arabian Peninsula (as well as a number of his ...
... they have seized, relinquish all “additional arms” and cease all the actions that are “
exclusively within the authority of the legitimate Government of Yemen.” It is obvious that implementing even this single article can push Ansar Allah into Yemen’s periphery both geographically and politically.
In turn, the representatives of Yemen’s National Delegation assume the stance of political realism, as it were, basing their position primarily on the balance of power that existed as ...
... allies among other domestic actors. The al-Ahmar family attracted the al-Islah and Muslim Brotherhood, whereas the General People’s Congress has allied with the BAATH party
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and the Union of Popular Forces, and also moved quietly toward the Ansar Allah.
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The only force able to rival the al-Houthi
military might before the September 21,
2014 revolution was the de jure disbanded
but de facto active 1st Armored Division
under the command of General
Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar.
After taking office ...
