Tit-for-tat attacks risk plunging Yemen back into major conflict

A VOLLEY of fire between the Iranian-backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia has threatened to upend a 2022 truce in Yemen and open another front in the already expanding war in the Middle East after the collapse of the ceasefire deal between the US and Iran.“Yemen today faces a greater risk of renewed large-scale conflict than at any point since the UN-brokered truce of April 2022,” UN envoy Hans Grundberg warned.The escalation, he said, risks “jeopardising the gains of the 2022 truce… while also drawing the country into a broader regional confrontation, with devastating consequences for its people.”Mr Grundberg said he has engaged in intensive talks with Yemeni parties and regional governments to avert further escalation.The tit-for-tat attacks started on July 13 with a Saudi airstrike that hit