The conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi rebels exposes a strategic weakness of the Arab world. Iran is using the conflict to disrupt Red Sea traffic and thus gain leverage in its war with the United States, while the Houthis are using the war to consolidate their power at home. The region’s three principal […]
The Houthis and the Power Vacuum in the Arab World
The Yemeni group's emergence exposes the Arab world’s failure to build a regional balance of power, leaving Iran to exploit the vacuum as Washington increasingly turns to non-Arab powers like Turkey and Pakistan to help fill it.
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