Yemen Civil War and Saudi-led Intervention
Yemen's civil war (2015-present) is the world's worst contemporary humanitarian crisis: 150,000-377,000 killed (70% from indirect causes — disease, famine), 21 million requiring humanitarian assistance, the worst cholera epidemic in recorded history. It is also a proxy war: Saudi Arabia and the UAE support the internationally recognised government against the Houthi movement, which receives Iranian support. The war began as an internal conflict between the Hadi government and the Houthis (who seized Sanaa in 2014); Saudi military intervention in March 2015 internationalised it. US arms sales to Saudi Arabia — continued under Obama, Trump, briefly paused under Biden, and resumed — made the US a direct material contributor to a conflict it has described as a humanitarian catastrophe.
- Category: Military
