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Why Saudi Arabia Fell Back Into The Yemen Trap (S01E172)
Friday, October 16, 2026, Paris
The war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Ansar Allah has escalated dramatically, undermining the Arabian Peninsula’s financial aspirations and unsettling the global economy.
In the latest episode of badlands, scholar and former US diplomat Annelle Sheline joins host Borzou Daragahi for an extraordinary discussion of Yemen’s history and how the Saudi Arabia appears to have stumbled into a trap set up Ansar Allah, or the Houthis as they are popularly known.
The Quincy Institute analyst also discusses her public departure from the US State Department over…
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