Encounter

YEMEN CRISIS The US-backed government in Yemen fell to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels jeopardizing US counter-terrorism efforts against AQAP. Host Carol Castiel speaks with Nadwa Al-Dawsari, a leading Yemeni expert on tribes and tribal conflicts and executive director of the Sheba Center for International Development and Charles Schmitz, a specialist on Yemen and Saudi Arabia at the Middle East Institute, about the internal and external political ramifications of Yemen’s collapse.