United States, Yemen
Collapse of Yemen's precarious truce worries Washington
Five months since it was set up, the Political Leadership Council mandated by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to bring calm to Yemen is undergoing its first existential crisis. With armed conflict increasing between factions of the anti-Houthi coalition vying for control of the south of the country, Washington is bracing for that side's conflict with pro-Iran militias to worsen.