My Enemy’s Enemy
The Houthis—a Shia insurgency group known to oppose Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula—successfully engineered a coup with the tacit assent of Yemen’s military. But will they be able to rule now that they’d gained power?
Belkis Wille is a Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch who does extensive work in Yemen.
The Houthis—a Shia insurgency group known to oppose Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula—successfully engineered a coup with the tacit assent of Yemen’s military. But will they be able to rule now that they’d gained power?