The US followed Saudi Arabia into a war with Yemen’s Houthi rebels on March 26, 2015. On the sixth anniversary of the start of that war, Saudi Arabia has offered the Houthis a ceasefire deal. The Houthis have so far rejected the offer. The World’s Stephen Snyder tells the backstory of the war in Yemen, and American security expert Bruce Riedel tells host Marco Werman what the end of the Yemen war might look like and what role the US could play in achieving it.
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