The Yemen War in Saudi Media

The Saudi press has been overwhelmingly positive in its portrayal of the war, thus proving itself instrumental in the realization of the Saudi government’s strategic goals in its Yemen intervention.

by Toby Matthiesen and Sebastian Sons

Just two months into his reign, Saudi Arabia’s, King Salman, launched a military intervention in Yemen, one of the biggest foreign policy adventures in the Kingdom’s modern history. The intervention was intended to crush the Houthi movement and reinstall the government of interim Yemeni president, Abd Rabbu Mansur Ha…