The Kingdom has branded itself a leading regional player and made the Yemen war a center-piece of its new position in the region. It will become increasingly difficult to sustain this media narrative the longer the conflict goes on and the more casualties and destitution the fighting causes.
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The spread of extremist Islamist ideology is as much a result of Western foreign policy as of Saudi machinations.
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Saudi Arabia’s fragmented Islamist field has displayed a diversity of responses to the coup in Egypt, the conflict in Syria, and the Saudi-led war in Yemen
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