TY - BOOK AU - Sharp, Jeremy M. TI - Yemen: : Civil War and Regional Intervention PY - 2015/// PB - Congressional Research Service KW - Guerra KW - Yemen N2 - This report provides material on the latest crisis in Yemen and the U.S. policy response. For further background and analysis on Yemen, see CRS Report RL34170, Yemen: Background and U.S. Relations, by Jeremy M. Sharp. Yemen’s internationally backed transition government, which replaced the regime of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012, appears to have fully collapsed. President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi went into hiding on March 25, 2015, after over a year in which his government and tribal allies have gradually been supplanted by an alliance comprised of the Houthi movement and loyalists of former president Saleh. Before disappearing, President Hadi had called on the international community and his Gulf Arab allies to intervene militarily, which Saudi Arabia and other nations did on March 25, bombing Houthi-Saleh forces UR - http://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/R43960.pdf ER -