Luke Zakedis
The Houthis are increasingly exchanging arms, training, and drone technology with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and al-Shabaab, marking a collaboration that transcends ideological divides and threatens to proliferate advanced weapons capabilities. The gravest emerging risk is technology transfer. If al-Qaeda affiliates acquire the capacity to indigenously produce Houthi missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), this know-how could cascade across the global jihadist network.
These collaborations remain transactional and compartmentalized, centered on near‑term arrangements for the Houthis to acquire funds and smuggling routes while al-Qaeda affiliates seek weapons procurement and manufacturing capabilities.
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