Regional menace grows into global threat as Houthis make power play

CAIRO — Yemen’s Houthis are no longer a local insurgency — they are going global.

Once just one faction in the civil war in the Middle East’s poorest country, the rebel group has transformed into a regional disruptor. It threatens global trade, launches strikes on Israel and forms dangerous alliances with extremist groups to destabilize the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.

Longtime Yemen watchers predict that not even the tentative ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a Houthi ally, will change the group’s trajectory with so much money and influence on the line.

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Regional menace grows into global threat as Houthis make power play

Yemen’s Houthis are no longer just a local insurgency - they are going global.

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

This is just one reason why Egypt has as many Soldiers in the Sinai as it does.

BTW, when I was there 40 years ago, the Egyptians also had 47 different kind of police forces in the Sinai, which were mostly just soldiers in different uniforms. They all pretty much had AK47. Not sure if it was to get around force limits in the Camp David Accords, or if they were part of the agreement, or simply there since Egyptian government extremely bureaucratic and authoritarian.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Hopefully the Houthis don't receive any more funding from the USA.