Yemen

The Houthis see the attacks in the Red Sea as part of a broader political project that goes back decades.

The United States appears overly confident that military strikes will put the Houthi threat back in the box.

The United States has not developed adequate responses for dealing with hybrid groups like the Houthis.

The absence of a functioning state exacerbates Yemen’s environmental disasters, compounding the humanitarian crisis caused by years of conflict.

If the Houthis are attacking Israel, their local rivals will be less inclined to attack them.

On October 26, AGSIW hosted a discussion on the prospects for the end of the conflict in Yemen.

Would South Yemen be a state for Southerners, or would it be the anti-Houthi Yemeni state?

Over the past year and a half, the war in Yemen has turned into a low-intensity conflict, punctuated by periodic clashes that have done little to alter the lines of control. In the northern highlands, the Houthis – a Zaydi Shia militia group – maintain control, much as they have since taking the capital of...