RIYADH: The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen have been forced to the negotiating table by the failure of their military campaign, a leading analyst has told Arab News. A Saudi delegation is currently in Sanaa for talks on ending the conflict, and a three-day operation to exchange about 900 prisoners is expected to begin on Friday, one day later than previously announced.
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Since 2014, the Houthi militia has abducted and tortured hundreds of women and forced their seclusion through indoctrination with foreign ideology. The violations of women’s rights and international norms cannot go unpunished unless Sana’a is to become a second Kabul.
The diplomatic breakthrough announced between Saudi Arabia and Iran in Beijing on March 10 has raised hopes of progress toward a political solution in Yemen, where Iran has sustained the Houthi rebels with funding, training and arms, including drones and ballistic and anti-shipping missiles. To seize on this rare opportunity, the European Council on Foreign Relations and the