Decades of Deadly Conflict Will Spread Across the Middle East

Author: Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
March 26, 2015
Financial Times

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The modern Middle East is like 17th-century Europe, enmeshed in violent and costly, political and religious struggles within and across borders that could well last for three decades longer. The situation in Yemen, long characterised by poverty and internal divisions along tribal, religious, political and geographic lines, is just the latest in those conflicts. There is now a civil war involving at least three principal actors: remnants of the former Sunni-led government of Abd Rabbuh Hadi; the terrorist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; and the Houthis, supported by a segment of Yemen’s population representing a branch of Shia Islam.
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