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31 March 2015

Saudi Arabia’s Big Gamble​

MARCH 26, 2015

But the airstrikes, troop movements, and suicide bombings that are dominating today’s headlines have nothing to do with the long-running conflicts over Israel, Palestine, Syria, or Iran’s nuclear program.

Don’t think that the events in Yemen, however, are peripheral. They are central to the balance of power within the Arab world, to tensions within Islam, and are at the core of fears in the global oil market. The new leadership of Saudi Arabia, whose military launched airstrikes on Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on March 26 and which has been steadily securing its grip on power, is the key player in shaping the course of this volatile new war in the Middle East. Still nonplussed?

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