The Yemen Civil War

Riyadh, wary of reliance on Western weapons suppliers and hungry for the jobs a domestic arms sector could provide, aims to someday equip its forces with equipment built at home.

As the humanitarian toll mounts, so will the political pressure on Washington to back away from the Gulf coalition's war effort.

Seeking to roll back the gains of its arch foe, Israel is calculating the risks and rewards of attacking Iranian interests in Iraq and Yemen.

The United Nations' latest effort to ease the country's civil war was over before it even began, leaving the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels to return to the battlefield – to the benefit of Iran and regional extremist groups.

The rebel group may be trying to keep the Saudi-led coalition from gathering the international support it needs for more intense strikes on the militants.

Yemen's Houthi rebels managed to dissuade Saudi Arabian oil tankers from transiting the crucial Bab el-Mandeb strait, affecting the ability of one of the world's leading energy suppliers to deliver to their customers.

The local, GCC-led alliance fighting against Houthi rebels has been showing cracks for a while, and those cracks have only widened.

A particularly gruesome attack on Emirati forces could have important implications for the war-torn country and the many foreign powers involved in the conflict.

Saudi Arabia's military has grown more deeply involved in Yemen over the last three years, and the country will remain committed to combating Houthi rebels so long as it is committed to stifling Iranian influence.

On Jan. 30, a southern secessionist group closely aligned with the United Arab Emirates took the country's second largest city from the internationally recognized president.