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05-17-2016, 05:51 AM
CAIRO/DUBAI: Islamic State efforts to exploit chaos may have brought Saudi-backed forces and Iran-allied Houthis tentatively closer at peace talks in Yemen’s civil war, but a deal seems unlikely in time to avert collapse into armed, feuding statelets.
Ferocious conflict along Yemen’s **rthern border between Saudi Arabia and Iran-allied Ansurallah, a revival movement also called the Houthis, defied two previous attempts to seal a peace.
But a truce this year and prisoner exchanges mean hopes for a third round of talks are higher.
The threat from an emerging common enemy may be galvanising their efforts.
Islamic State appears to be behind a dizzying uptick in suicide attacks and al-Qaeda fighters continue to hold sway over broad swathes of the country that abuts Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday the kingdom sought to prioritie fighting militants in Yemen over its desultory arm-wrestle with entrenched Houthi insurgents.
"Whether we agree or disagree with them, the Houthis are part of the social fabric of Yemen ...The Houthis are our neighbours. Al-Qaeda and Daesh are terrorist entities that must be confronted in Yemen and everywhere else," Jubeir tweeted, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
**w largely stalemated, the conflict has killed at least 6,200 people - half of them civilians - and sent nearly three million people fleeing for safety.
Despite the relative lull during talks, hostility continues.
Saudi Arabia has pounded its enemies with dozens of air strikes. Houthis have responded with two ballistic missile launches.
If the parties seize the opportunity, an unlikely new status quo may reign by which Houthis and Saudis depend on each other for peace.
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Ferocious conflict along Yemen’s **rthern border between Saudi Arabia and Iran-allied Ansurallah, a revival movement also called the Houthis, defied two previous attempts to seal a peace.
But a truce this year and prisoner exchanges mean hopes for a third round of talks are higher.
The threat from an emerging common enemy may be galvanising their efforts.
Islamic State appears to be behind a dizzying uptick in suicide attacks and al-Qaeda fighters continue to hold sway over broad swathes of the country that abuts Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Thursday the kingdom sought to prioritie fighting militants in Yemen over its desultory arm-wrestle with entrenched Houthi insurgents.
"Whether we agree or disagree with them, the Houthis are part of the social fabric of Yemen ...The Houthis are our neighbours. Al-Qaeda and Daesh are terrorist entities that must be confronted in Yemen and everywhere else," Jubeir tweeted, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
**w largely stalemated, the conflict has killed at least 6,200 people - half of them civilians - and sent nearly three million people fleeing for safety.
Despite the relative lull during talks, hostility continues.
Saudi Arabia has pounded its enemies with dozens of air strikes. Houthis have responded with two ballistic missile launches.
If the parties seize the opportunity, an unlikely new status quo may reign by which Houthis and Saudis depend on each other for peace.
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