article_snippet.sent: But there is as yet little sign that Houthi rebels in Yemen are being driven back, that the fighting in Yemen is dying down or that lives there are being saved.
article_snippet.sent: To the contrary, increasingly more Yemenis appear to be fleeing Yemen, attempting the dangerous trip in rickety fishing boats across the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa -- a trip historically made by people fleeing Africa rather than the other way around.
article_snippet.sent: Hopes for stability, not only in Yemen but in the Middle East in general, are fading as fears grow that Saudi Arabia and Iran are fighting a proxy war in Yemen for regional domination.
article_snippet.sent: The Houthis forced Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi from power in January, though Hadi still claims Hadi is Yemen's legitimate leader and is working with the Saudis and other allies to return to Yemen.
article_snippet.sent: Those allied with Hadi have accused Yemen of supporting The Houthis in Those allied with Hadi uprising in Yemen.
article_snippet.sent: Like the Iranians, The Houthis are Shiites.
article_snippet.sent: And like the Saudis, Hadi and Hadi are Sunni.