On March 26, 2015, a Saudi-led coalition began a bombing compaign in Yemen targeting the Houthis and their allies, which include forces loyal to Yemen's former leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Airstrikes in Yemen will continue until Shiite rebels there "withdraw and surrender their weapons," a summit of Arab leaders decided on Sunday, March 28. The leaders also agreed in principle to form a joint military force, putting the Arab League on a path to potentially more aggresively challenge Shiite power in Iran, which is reportedly backing the Yemeni rebels.
In today's Viz of the Day, you can review detailed information about the military forces of Arab states and compare countries' firepower according to the number of the ground-based systems or air forces, or naval strength.
Souce: Global Firepower, 2014
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Knoema developed this special visualization series to highlight the variety of sources available to track and examine trends in various types of conflict and terrorism-related violence worldwide. Combined with traditional macroeconomic and sociodemographic information and even new indicators for social unrest and transformation, social scientists to security analysts to the average informed citizens now have easier and more reliable access to this valuable data type than ever before. At the bottom of each page, we offer live links to featured and additional conflict datasources. As...
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