Regional competition for Yemen

After the First World War and the independence of Yemen from the Ottoman Empire, it became the scene of a civil war between the years 1962-1968, and similar to that from 2011 to the present day witnessing a new civil war. Yemen was known in the past as "Arabia felix" or (Happy Arabia), where it's people lived in peace and prosperity, but at the present time Yemen lives in a state of chaos and violence far from the old characteristics. The strategic geographic location of Yemen made it control over the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, Babül' Mandeb and the waterway of the Suez Canal, but external interventions by some countries in Yemen made it a country with a fragile structure and weak management. Despite the unity of the two parts of Yemen (northern and southern), which is supposed to increase the power of the state, but the weakness of the government and the presence of internal conflicts made the state weak, which enabled the Houthis to control Sana'a. The internal political forces play an important role, whether economic or political, in the Yemen war, as they receive support from external parties on the basis of a partnership of purpose and interests. The Republic of Yemen, which was formed through the unification of North and South Yemen, has five main factors. They are the Houthis, Al Qaeda, the Islah party, Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Southern Socialist Party. The five main factors that we mentioned in Yemen that were negatively affected by the Arab Spring and had a role in the events of Yemen. Iran has moved from using it's soft power in these conflicts to hard power through the Houthis. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia abandoned it's traditional foreign policy in an unprecedented step in this conflict and began to use hard force in the Yemeni arena, which was exemplified by the Decisive Storm that began in 2015. In this study, the external factors (the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iran) involved in internal conflicts in Yemen will be studied and how they have an impact on the effective local actors.