After four years of fighting, the United Arab Emirates [UAE] is abandoning their Saudi allies in Yemen as they begin to draw down their ground forces in what they are calling a  “strategic redeployment." They had provided the bulk of the ground forces for the Sunni alliance as they have battled Yemen's Houthi rebels. The UAE's decision to begin withdrawing their forces seems to signal that they no longer believe a military victory is possible. The New York Times: "The Emirat

The US House of Representatives voted 248-to-177 yesterday to to end military assistance to Saudi Arabia for its war in Yemen. 18 Republicans joined the Democratic House majority in censuring the Saudis. It's now up to the Republican controlled Senate to join them and send the resolution to President Trump who has threatened to veto it. Axios: "The bill, which passed 248-177 and now heads to the Senate, is a rebuke of President Trump's foreign policy amid broader pushback ove

Donald Trump's Mid East policy is built upon our alliance with Saudi Arabia to counter growing Iranian influence in the region. As part of that strategy, America has armed Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen's civil war to off-set Iran's support for the Houthi rebels there, despite a series of bloody Saudi attacks that resulted in the deaths of scores of civilians, many of them children. It now appears that some of the arms that we sold to Saudi Arabia have been transferred