While the war in Syria and Iraq rages on, covered daily by all news networks and America constantly seems to have public disagreements with Saudi Arabia and Israel, many Americans seem to think they know quite a bit about Middle Eastern affairs. However, one area which seems to be of little or no concern to the vast majority of Americans is Yemen. After a government takeover in 2015 by the Houthis (a group America and Saudi Arabia allege are proxies of Iran), the country was thrown into civil war as President Hadi was forced to resign before the new government dissolved parliament and created a revolutionary committee to rule the country. Though the United States has provided hundreds of millions of dollars of military equipment to a war that has cost thousands of lives, including 22 last week in a Hadi inhabited mosque which was destroyed with a Houthi missile, and the conflict involves not only the warring Yemeni governments, but also Saudi Arabia, the Islamic State, and a host of other Middle Eastern and North African nations, the conflict receives little to no coverage among news networks and goes largely unnoticed by the American population. This is a conflict which has the potential to last much longer than the conflict with ISIS in Syria (though not necessarily the Syrian Civil War as that continues to become increasingly complicated to resolve with various countries asserting their competing stakes in the country) as it does not have any end in sight and continues to become more violent without ever being covered beyond disjointed news clips which have no impact without the context of the full events.
