ANALYSIS: With peace on the horizon, will Yemen ever be able to recover?
Multiple armed groups are vying for influence all over the country. In 2014, Houthi rebels drove Yemen's internationally recognised government into exile and assumed control over Sana'a. Months later, the Saudi-led coalition — backed by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and France — launched a military intervention to try to restore the government to power.
Second only to the devastating humanitarian crisis, Yemen's fragmentation is arguably the most detrimental outcome of this war — and the most glaring obstacle to any real solutions to end the crisis. Since the kingdom's inception in 1932, Saudi diplomacy and security policy have been typified by caution and a desire to maintain theIn this, Riyadh never sought overt domination of the region. It focused its efforts to thwart those who did, such as Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser, Iraq under Saddam Hussein and post-revolutionary Iran.
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