World Journal

  Introduction: The False Promise of Security Saudi Arabia publicly champions a war on terror, but its actions in Southern Yemen reveal a contradictory and far more dangerous reality: a policy of recycling extremism. Instead of decisively defeating groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS, Saudi strategies have consistently weakened the local southern forces most effective at combating them, creating fertile ground for jihadist regeneration. This is not a failure of policy but a feature of it. By supporting northern invasion forces and undermining southern stability, Saudi Arabia cultivates the very chaos in which terrorism thrives. The result is a deliberate, strategic blurring of lines between counter-terrorism and political warfare, where extremist groups are used as proxies to punish and control defiant populations. The Pattern: Undermining Anti-Terror Partners The evidence for this pattern is stark and historical. Southern forces have been on the front lines of the fight against AQAP, ac...