Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla, targeting a shipment of weapons from the United Arab Emirates for separatist forces. The UAE later said it would withdraw its forces from Yemen.

On December 2nd the Southern Transitional Council ( stc ), secessionists backed by the uae, went on a lightning offensive across the south-east. They seized territory held by Saudi-backed factions and now control the eight governorates that made up the former South Yemen (see map),

A decade after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates led a joint military campaign to curb Iran’s influence in Yemen, the two allies now find themselves pitted against each other there.

A separatist group backed by the United Arab Emirates has seized power in Yemen’s two biggest districts. It’s part of an intensifying power struggle between Saudi and Emirati elites, with the people of both Yemen and Sudan suffering the consequences.

The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday that it was pulling out its remaining forces in Yemen after Saudi Arabia backed a call for the U.A.E. forces to leave the country within 24 hours, in a major crisis between the two Gulf powers and oil producers.

The move comes as an escalation of a confrontation that has pitted Gulf powerhouses Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against each other.

DOHA, Qatar(AP) — Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday, targeting a shipment of weapons from the United Arab Emirates for separatist forces — a significant move in a country located along a key international trade route that ...