Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council has a simple message for Washington: cut your losses in the war with the Houthis and help establish an anti-Houthi breakaway state.
When Riyadh and its Yemeni allies launched airstrikes on Sanaa airport on July 13, reigniting the Yemeni civil war, the anti-Houthi coalition could hardly have envisioned the conflict going worse than it did. Supporters had hoped the freezing of the conflict since 2022 had allowed anti-Houthi forces to regroup, rearm, and emerge as a different fighting force than that which struggled to combat the group during the civil war from 2014-22. Instead, the Houthis resumed fighting stronger than ever, launching a blistering offensive that seized the entire Red Sea coast, encircled Yemen’s third city of Taiz, and positioned themselves to threaten the anti-Houthi capital of Aden. Ambitious counteroffensives with heavy Saudi air support have all failed.
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