Tag: Houthi movement
L’Arabie saoudite est confrontée à un choix stratégique : capituler devant les exigences d’AnsarAllah, ou être entraînée dans un piège de crédibilité. Le piège est que MbS peut chercher à maintenir la crédibilité du prétendu devoir que s’impose le Royaume de garder les Lieux Saints [La Mecque, NdT] et, en tant que « pôle » islamique sunnite, de refuser les demandes d’AnsarAllah.
John Rees assesses the Houthi involvement in Trump’s war on Iran, and what it means for the U.S. President
As Yemen’s Houthis ramp up the costs of war in the Gulf, Tehran is wagering on US elections to bring a political sea change
After than a decade of war, the Houthis have achieved what a superpower-backed coalition spent ten years and tens of billions of dollars trying to prevent. They now sit astride the Bab al-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s critical maritime chokepoints, and they are once again raining missiles and drones on Saudi cities. And when Riyadh picked up the phone this week to ask Washington for help, the answer was no.
