Factbox - What's at risk in Yemen: oil routes, al Qaeda and proxy war


  • World
  • Thursday, 26 Mar 2015

DUBAI (Reuters) - If Yemen's conflict draws in Saudi Arabia and rival Iran it might ignite a proxy war on the Arabian peninsula, home to the world's biggest oilfields, and pour more fuel on a sectarian conflagration driving multiple wars around the Middle East.

Western strategists grappling with complex conflicts in Iraq and Syria would be further confounded by fresh instability at a sensitive moment ahead of a possible nuclear deal next week between world powers and Tehran.

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