- MEI's Ahmad Majidyar: Iran rejects inspection of military sites
Critical Threats Project analyst Maher Farrukh writes Yemen’s Iranian-backed al Houthi movement is consolidating control over Sana’a-based governing institutions after former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh failed to push back against the group. Additionally, separatists backed by the UAE are establishing independent governing structures that rival the U.S.-backed Yemeni government in southern Yemen. He warns that southern political actors’ pursuit of independence may prevent a political settlement to the Yemeni conflict and undermine U.S. policy in the region.
AEI’s Critical Threats Project team tracks developments related to Yemen closely. Here are some of the highlights of the team’s recent analysis of the conflict:
- How the US Should Re-Engage in Yemen
- Warning Update: Fracturing of the Yemeni state
- A New Model for Defeating al Qaeda in Yemen
- Al Qaeda’s Base in Yemen
- Losing Wars: Terrorism and Disease in Yemen
- Province Ties to the Islamic State Core: Islamic State in Yemen (from Beyond Syria and Iraq: Examining Islamic State Provinces, Washington Institute)