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GUEST: Joe Lauria, is an international affairs correspondent, who has written for the Wall Street Journal, Middle East Eye and Consortium News.

Yemen’s exiled Prime Minister and Vice President Khaled Bahah, returned to his country on Wednesday months after a major war was started by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. He arrived at the Port of Aden, which has been captured by Saudi and Emirati troops, and where several other ministers from the former government have arrived. Bahah and many government officials have been taking refuge in Saudi Arabia after the Houthi rebel movement took over the nation. As of this recording, President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi remains in exile in Saudi Arabia.

Yemen, which is the poorest country in the Persian Gulf, has been the target of a brutal and relentless war of which US military advisers and US supplied weapons are a major part. Aid groups have warned that the country is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe with about half the country’s population at risk of starvation. Saudi forces have routinely prevented food and medical supplies from entering ports. Nearly 5,000 people have been killed so far in the war. UN efforts to resolve the conflict have been repeatedly thwarted by Saudi Arabia.