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Yemen

Iona Craig

No end in sight for Yemen’s nightmare as UAE and Saudi Arabia’s proxy conflict continues

A full-scale military confrontation between the two former allies was narrowly avoided last week. But the outlook for the Yemeni people caught in the middle is as dire as ever

Sun 4 Jan 2026

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