Yemen’s indecisive storm

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IT WAS a short-lived ceasefire. On April 21st Saudi Arabia declared the end of “Operation Decisive Storm”, a three-week long campaign of air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, which had supposedly achieved its objectives. But a few hours later Houthi fighters claimed control of a Yemeni army compound in Taiz, Yemen’s third city, and the Saudis resumed air strikes. The conflict in Yemen has quickly become one of the region’s proxy wars between a Sunni coalition led by Saudi Arabia, which backs the government of Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and Iran, which backs the Houthis, who are Shias (though of the Zaydi branch, rather than Iran's so-called “Twelver” branch).

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