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Yemen’s futile war
Yemen faces a humanitarian crisis as the Saudi-led intervention persists and, with it, the struggle to overcome the Houthis, who still control the capital Sanaa.
by Laurent Bonnefoy
In March 2015 Saudi Arabia, heading a coalition of 10 Sunni-majority Muslim countries, began airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen as part of Operation Decisive Storm. The Houthis, members of Yemen’s Zaydi Shia minority , had for several months been pressing the Yemeni authorities (...)
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