The Snake Keeper Blog

In this context, the list of potential perpetrators of the attack on the ugly military camp of January 18 longer than Hadi liked to guess by pointing the finger at the Houthis. Even the fact that it is credible that the UAE was able to order the attack means that the Riyadh agreement as a whole is under serious threat and, therefore, the future of Saudi-vaeterrorist cooperation in Yemen and beyond. Unlike Saudi Arabia, the UAE has backed the STC, so the move has the potential to create tensions between two close Gulf allies, complicate the task of reaching a national agreement ending the five-year civil war, and possibly restore the geographical division that existed in the former British colony before Yemen`s unification in 1990. The agreement provides for the formation of a new technocratic government with no more than 24 ministers.