The last two months of 2017 witnessed a severe escalation to the conflict in Yemen, irreversibly altering the power-sharing alliance between the Houthis and the Sana’a-based General People’s Congress, and further delaying progress to the UN-sponsored peace process. The escalation began when a ballistic missile was targeted at Riyadh on November 4, after which the coalition placed a bounty on 40 senior Houthis and imposed a full nationwide blockade on all sea, air, and land po