Recent shifts in Yemen’s political landscape suggest the country is entering a new phase, marked above all by a distinctly Saudi-led recalibration of how the Yemen file is managed, following the retreat of the Emirati role.

Yemen’s political landscape is shifting rapidly as local and regional power balances change and key actors reposition, reshaping the political and military map—most notably in the south.

The escalating tensions in Yemen's largest governorates represent a new episode in the series of dismantling the anti-Houthi camp, an outcome that the group has long sought and invested in politically and militarily.

The events in Hadramout Governorate transcend being a mere local incident, noting that they represent a political and social earthquake threatening the remaining cohesion of the anti-Houthi camp.

In a move that sent political shockwaves through Iraq, the Official Gazette published a decision listing Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi group as terrorist organizations, a step the Iraqi central bank later walked back, calling it an “unintentional mistake.”