Saudi Arabia Sinking in Yemen Quagmire: Report

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Alwaght-Saudi Arabia is sinking into a major quagmire in its brutal aggression on Yemen with reports of an intensifying power struggle within the monarchy and strained ties with its Persian Gulf allies.
According to a Friday report by Washington Post, the Al Saud regime in Riyadh is facing unprecedented economic and political challenges facing due to its war on its impoverished neighbor. The report titled 'Yemen is turning into Saudi Arabia’s Vietnam' notes that the Saudi-led coalition appears increasingly hobbled by divisions and unable to find a face-saving way to end the costly conflict.
“This war is draining the Saudis militarily, politically, strategically,” said Farea al-Muslimi, a Yemen analyst at the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center. “The problem is, they’re stuck there.”
As the conflict drags on, mounting civilian casualties and a worsening humanitarian crisis have drawn criticism from international rights groups. More than 7,200 people have been killed since the illegal aggression began, and U.N. officials warn of famine in the desperately poor country of 25 million people.
According to the report, the Saudi war on Yemen, has is also led murmurs among the regime's allies and arms suppliers including the US and the UK, to keep up their support for the Saudi regime in the military campaign.
Inside the kingdom, analysts say, the war has intensified apparent power struggles within the secretive and opaque royal family.
King Salman, who took power in January, has rattled the kingdom with shake-ups, including the appointment of his 30-year-old son to deputy crown prince and defense minister, placing him in charge of the Yemen campaign. An economy battered by low oil prices has added to the friction. Dissenters within the royal family have released several open letters criticizing the king.
“It’s all somewhat murky, of course, but the war is generating this competition for power,” said Yezid Sayigh, a Middle East analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
The relatively small number of Saudi troops fighting in Yemen — estimated at several hundred — signals Saudi rulers’ heightened concern about the potential domestic blowback over casualties from the war, Sayigh said.
Despite requests from Saudi Arabia, allies such as Egypt and Pakistan have refused to send in ground forces. Several thousand UAE troops have taken the lead on the ground in Yemen.
Yemen has been under Saudi airstrikes on a daily basis since March 26. The regime in Riyadh unleashed the air raids in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia.
According to a Yemeni coalition of observers monitoring the Saudi aggression, over 7,200 people, including about 1,990 children and women, have been killed in the Saudi airstrikes, and a over 15,000 injured since March.
The Saudi-led coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah movement fighters, but the coalition warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructure including schools, hospitals, mosques etc.

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