Saudi Arabia wary of testing Mecca pact as Yemen war returns, analyst says

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Sultan Barakat, a senior professor in public policy at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, told Al Jazeera that Yemen has pretty much returned to civil war as fighting has intensified in the past week, following years of a stalemate. With the Saudi-backed internationally-recognised Yemeni government now recording some gains against the Houthis, Barakat said it would be hard to envision a break in the fig…