Shia insurgency in Yemen

President Barack Obama shakes hands with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tameem bin Hamad Al Thani, while hosting the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David on May 14, 2015.

A royal Saudi ‘snub’ isn’t stopping the flow of American weapons to the Gulf

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman wasn’t at this week’s Camp David summit with other leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, but that didn’t stop President Barack Obama from promising to “streamline and expedite” the delivery of weapons to the kingdom — even those being used in Yemen.

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A filmmaker who gained unprecedented access to the Houthis explains what’s going on in Yemen

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People search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by an air strike near the Sanaa airport on March 26, 2015.

Yemen’s ‘turf battle’ just got a lot bigger — and a lot more dangerous

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An injured girl reacts as she is carried by a man out of a mosque which was attacked by a suicide bomber in Sanaa on March 20, 2015.

Yemen’s capital is wracked by bombings targeting mosques

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Followers of the Houthi movement march as they demonstrate to show support for the Shiite rebel group in Sana'a on January 23, 2015.

The Houthi takeover in Yemen will reverberate in Saudi Arabia

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Houthi fighters ride in a truck on a street leading to the Republican Palace in Sana'a, Yemen, on January 20, 2015.

Rebels take over Yemen’s capital, but one Yemeni insists it’s ‘not big news’

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Sana’a resident Hisham al-Omeisy live-tweeted the television address of the rebel leader whose forces have taken control of Yemen’s capital. He says Western media are overreacting, and that for many Yemenis the Houthi takeover is more business as usual than a big event.

Shiite Houthi rebels gesture as they stand atop an army vehicle they took from the compound of the army's First Armoured Division in Sanaa on September 22, 2014.

Yemen’s peace deal brings Houthi rebels into the government, but many problems remain

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A protest in Sana’a led by a northern Yemeni tribe, the Houthis, became a military assault on the capital over the weekend. Now a UN-brokered peace deal will allow the Houthis into power and end the fighting, but the situation remains complex with sectarian and tribal disputes still simmering.

Followers of the Shi'ite Houthi movement perform Friday prayers on the airport road in Sanaa. Shiite rebels shelled Yemen's state-run television building in Sanaa on Friday and hundreds of residents fled in a dramatic escalation of violence.

The biggest threat in Yemen probably isn’t what you think

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The Houthi insurgency may be low on the radar of American worries in Yemen, the but the Shiite group is now in the streets of the capital and fighting government forces. And that battle could hand an opportunity to the group Western nations are focused on: al-Qaeda.