Iran-backed Houthis escalate Yemen attacks as Trump signals major policy shift

In the ancient contest between rival powers for dominance over a fractured land, Yemen has once again become the place where larger ambitions meet their human cost. Saudi Arabia and the Houthi movement — sustained by Iranian patronage — have exchanged blows that have claimed at least five lives and brought down a fighter jet, making visible what diplomacy has long struggled to contain. Into this volatile equation steps a returning American president signaling that his administration may soon make a consequential choice about Iran itself — a choice whose reverberations would be felt from Tehran