Saudi-Yemen conflict sharpens region’s rivalries
World News • December 2009 • Views: 249
audi Arabia’s escalating war against rebels in neighboring Yemen elevates what had been a local insurrection against Sanaa into a conflict with regional dimensions that could ignite bigger fires in a part of the world that is already staring into the abyss.
The monthlong fighting, which capped a five-year tribal rebellion in the mountains of northern Yemen, exacerbates regional rivalries and deepens the potentially dangerous 1,200-year-old schism between Sunni Muslims and their Shiite cousins…