No one wants peace more than the people of Yemen led by the Islamic resistance movement Ansarallah. It is the US-backed Saudi aggressors that are playing games.
Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, the young, staunchly anti-American firebrand of the Iraqi Shi‘a community, has been largely absent from view for more than a year, but the tense anticipation with which decision-makers in Baghdad and Washington awaited his expected announcement at the end of February showed his continued importance to Iraq's political scene and its future.