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As the regional conflict escalates, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi faces a strategic choice: intervene or stay out.

Mourners attend a memorial rally held by supporters of Yemen's Huthis a day after Iran's supreme leader was assassinated during a US and Israeli strikes on Tehran, in the Huthi-held capital Sanaa on March 1, 2026.

Security fragmentation and regional rivalries are reshaping power in southern Yemen.

Fighters said to be backed by the Saudi-led coalition drive through the streets of the port city of Aden on January 8, 2026, the day after it was annouced that Yemen's separatist leader had fled to the United Arab Emirates. A Saudi-led coalition struck the home province of Yemen's UAE-backed separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) leader on January 7, 2026, after he failed to show up for talks in Saudi Arabia, kicking him out of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council and accusing him of high treason, while the Saudi coalition bombed his home province after he refused to attend talks in Riyadh. (Photo by SALEH AL-OBEIDI / AFP)

Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi speaks with Al Jazeera’s Yemeni affairs editor Ahmed al-Shalafi.

Al-Shalafi meets Hadi