The Takeaway: Yemen’s truce renewed but permanent peace elusive

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Yemeni demonstrators demand the end of a years-long blockade on the Yemeni third city of Taez on July 26, 2022. Taez, which has a population of roughly 600,000 people, has been largely cut off from the world since 2015 when the rebels closed the main routes into the city. Conflict since 2014 between the Iran-backed Huthis and government forces has left hundreds of thousands dead in fighting or through illness and malnutrition. There has been a truce since April. - AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images
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Our take: Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to a two-month extension of a United Nations-mediated truce, but a political settlement to end the civil war remains a distant prospect.  

On Tuesday, United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg announced the renewal of a truce that since April has brought relative calm to Yemen after more than seven years of grueling conflict between the Iran-aligned Houthi movement and the Saudi-backed government.  

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