Saudi exit strategy
The Kingdom faces a tough task to extricate itself from the ongoing war in Yemen
Saudi Arabia and the UAE also have another crisis to confront: how to withdraw from the war in Yemen. This bruising conflict began in 2015 with what was supposed to be a brief air campaign to crush an insurrection by the Houthis and their allies. The military miscalculation has led not only to thousands of civilian deaths and injuries, but has left more than 22mn people in need of humanitarian assistance. The war dented Saudi Arabia's international image — even before the fall-out from the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul. Yemen disaster Oman has leveraged its good relations with Iran to attempt to mediate in the conflict — the Houthis en
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