Yemen Pays the Price for Saudi Paranoia
The Takeaway | Mar 9, 2016
Yemen is embroiled in a bloody civil war. But the nation is playing a strategic role in the broader sectarian conflict between the Sunni-majority nation of Saudi Arabia and Shiite-led Iran, whom the Saudis believe are backing the Shiite Houthi rebel fighters in Yemen.
In "Return to Yemen," VICE journalist Ben Anderson takes viewers with him into the heart of the fighting as he embeds with the Houthis in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a.
The Saudis, Anderson says, "are so paranoid about Iranian influence surrounding them that they've launched an indiscriminate bombing campaign, which they thought would take weeks, possibly months at best. It's now ten months on, and you could actually argue the Saudis are losing."
