According to the Yemen Data Project, more than 17,500 civilians have been killed and injured since 2015 - with a quarter of all civilians killed in air raids said to be women and children. We have no freedoms because they hate us, as this Arab woman so powerfully says. Some 100,000 people are now thought to be dead because of the conflict, from direct involvement and knock on effects such as mass starvation and inadequate sanitation. Theres this thing called 'minding your own business'. President Donald Trump has continued supporting the regime’s war in Yemen, and he refused to condemn the Saudis for Khashoggi’s murder. Hadi was put under house arrest but managed to escape to safety in Saudi Arabia before returning to recaptured Aden. Saudi Arabia has an estimated population of 32 million, the 40th largest in the world and 6th largest in the Arab world. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. On one level, what is now playing out in Yemen is a religiously inflected proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but that is not a sufficient explanation. Prince Turki al-Faisal quickly countered the free rider claim, and was followed by Prince Abdullah al-Saud who wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that defended the war in Yemen. The problem for Saudi Arabia now is that its attempt to stymie the Shia awakening has backfired. They, along with many of the Sunni states, went to war, pulling their militaries away from the campaign against the Islamic State. That’s all changed over the past thirty-five years, first with the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which produced an aggressively Islamist Shia government, and then with the American occupation of Iraq, which effectively transferred governance away from the Sunnis. Yemen was civilised and Saudi Arabia was a Bedouin wasteland bar the Hejaz. The North wasn't able to get the same connections. Saudi Arabia, which has some of the most restrictive travel policies in the world, does not grant visas to Israelis or people with Israeli visa stamps in their passport. Like many tumultuous places in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the United States attempted to exploit protests during the so-called Arab Spring. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have carried out attacks in Yemen against the Houthis. The leaders of SA are hughly intelligent, well educated men. Since 2015, the US has backed Saudi Arabia’s coalition and supported its war in Yemen against the Houthi rebels. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Military metaphors aside, the real problem now is that Yemen is starving to death. Part of the reason is that Yemen sits on Saudi Arabia’s back doorstep, and a hostile government there could put southern Saudi communities in danger. A shortage of medical supplies is devastating the country’s health infrastructure. The new policy has three elements: the end of “offensive operations” in Yemen, the continued support for Saudi Arabia’s defense, and a new push for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. So why would the Saudis do this? The Saudis are also contending with a freshly disputatious President Obama, who last month accused them of free riding off American security guarantees. Sunni jihadist groups like Al Qaeda are manageable and often home-brewed nuisances; Iran is an exterior geopolitical threat. In late 2014 and early 2015, the rebels - who are loyal to Saleh - gradually took over the capital Sanaa, before attempting to take control of the entire country, which led to Hadi fleeing the country in March 2015. Why Saudi Arabia is Hammering Yemen. There are also more than 100,000 known cholera cases across the nation. Saudi Arabia borders on Yemen and Oman to the south, the United Arab Emirates to the east, Kuwait, Iraq, and Jordan to the north, and the Red Sea to the west. The attack on Saudi Arabia’s major oil processing station in Abqaiq over the weekend was a major turning point in global politics. Only Iran benefits from prolonging this dirty war. Commenting is currently disabled on this article. His government is still internationally recognised. Bush administration immediately cut off the United States’ $70 million in annual aid to Yemen. To understand the war in Yemen, you have to assume the perspective of a Saudi elite and zoom the camera outwards. Even as Saudi Arabia … Go back 100 years ago and the two countries position were reversed. It’s far too dangerous to take sides in the proxy war between the two great Sunni and Shia states. Saudi Arabia, arid, sparsely populated kingdom of the Middle East, and a young country heir to a rich history. Saudi Arabia has a desert climate with extremely hot days and steep temperature dips at night. Already the poorest country in the Middle East, Yemen has for months been subjected to a Saudi blockade, creating shortages of essential goods, including food. Vali Nasr has expertly chronicled this revolution in his 2007 book The Shia Revival. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Almigdad Mojalli/VOA. Well, it depends on how you define “badly”. More than 23,000 fatalities were reported in 2019. Charity UNICEF says approximately 80% of Yemen's population, or 24 million people, rely on aid, and 10 million are facing famine. So why intervene now? The UN had verified the deaths of at least 7,500 civilians by September 2019, with most caused by Saudi-led coalition air strikes. Saudi Arabia is a low risk and low change-tolerant culture. In October last year, the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) said it had recorded more than 100,000 deaths, including 12,0000 civilians killed in direct attacks. In 2019, it delivered more than $1 billion, and this year it has pledged $500 million. This is presented as an equivalent war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and again it couldn’t be further from the truth. Managers reach decisions after many discussions with major stakeholders. Instead, it brought more international condemnation and the torching of the Saudi embassy in Tehran. Tribal groups seeking autonomy have also become embroiled in the conflict. They’ve also had some successes against AQAP in Shabwah and (I think) Hadramaut. The civil war is considered one of the largest humanitarian crisis' in the world right now, with millions affected. Syria is an obvious example, while in Yemen Saudi Arabia has accused Iran of supplying ballistic missiles fired at Saudi territory by the rebel Houthi movement. Saudi Arabia doesn't need elections even though Syria does, ambassador claims. It is barely more than a third of the size of Egypt's population. The BBC has also partnered with the The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) for its Yemen appeal. Saudi Arabia announced last week it was suspending oil shipments through the Red Sea's Bab al-Mandeb strait after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked two ships in the waterway. So when the Shiite Houthi rebels captured the Yemeni capital of Sana in late 2014, a shock was sent through the Middle East’s Sunni nervous system. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. He united north and south Yemen in 1990, tilted toward Iraq during the 1991 Kuwait war, and survived a Saudi … International organisations such as The Red Cross, Save the Children, UNICEF and Oxfam are collecting donations to help Yemeni citizens and families.

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