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July 16, 2026

Why the Yemen Front Is Heating Up

Saudi Arabia wants the other strait to stay open.

On Monday, Saudi Arabia appears to have carried out airstrikes on the Sana’a airport; the Iran-backed Houthi regime that controls that part of Yemen retaliated with ballistic missiles and drones. Yoel Guzansky explains this sudden activity on a front that has largely been quiet since last year, and Riyadh’s decision to get invovled once more in a Yemeni civil war from which it had tried to extract itself in 2022: 

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