Decades of Deadly Conflict Will Spread Across the Middle East
Author:
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
March 26, 2015
Financial Times
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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