article_snippet: Map showing the location of the trouble in Yemen, a country in the Middle East .
article_snippet: Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said military action would complicate and worsen the crisis in Yemen.
article_snippet: The departure of President Hadi, a close U.S. ally, and the imminent fall of the southern port of Aden pushed Yemen further toward a violent collapse.
article_snippet: Yemen also threatens to turn the impoverished but strategic country into another proxy battle between the Middle East's Sunni powers and Shiite-led Iran.
article_snippet: Dr Natasha Underhill, an expert on terrorism in the Middle East at Nottingham Trent University, warned that Yemen now stands on the brink of civil war.
article_snippet: Dr Natasha Underhill, an expert on terrorism in the Middle East at Nottingham Trent University said 'With himself President effectively removed from power and with no clear sign of a return on the horizon, the situation is reaching a boiling point and the power vacuum that has emerged could result in the failure of Yemen in the coming weeks. '
article_snippet: Saudi Arabia intervention through the use of airstrikes has added fuel to the fire and may in fact lead to increased fighting between President Hadi's forces and the Houthis. '
article_snippet: The fear with the Saudi involvement at this point would be that it may be seen as an act of aggression and could thus trigger further outbreaks of violence in the already troubled region.'
article_snippet: The advance of The Iran-backed rebels, empowered by the backing of the ousted Yemeni autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh and Ali Abdullah Saleh loyalists, threatens to plunge Saudi Arabia into a civil war that could draw in Saudi Arabia the Gulf neighbors.