A Flight, An Airstrike, A Blockade: How Yemen's Truce Started Unraveling
Tensions in Yemen have escalated following a Saudi airstrike on Sanaa airport, which was triggered by a Houthi attempt to land an Iranian-operated flight. This incident threatens to collapse the 2022 UN-brokered truce and risks drawing the country into a wider regional conflict.
Why it matters
The breakdown of the Yemen ceasefire could destabilize the broader Middle East and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the region.
A volley of fire between the Iranian-backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia has threatened to upend a 2022 truce in Yemen and open another front in the already expanding war in the Middle East after the collapse of the ceasefire deal between the US and Iran."Yemen today faces a greater risk of renewed large-scale conflict than at any point since the UN-brokered truce of April 2022, " UN envoy Hans Grundberg warned.The escalation, he said, risks "jeopardising the gains of the 2022 truce ...
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