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Saudi-led coalition warns of intervention against Yemen separatists
The Saudi-led coalition warned Saturday it would back Yemen's government in any military confrontation with separatist forces, as Riyadh urged them to withdraw "peacefully" from recently-seized provinces.
Deadly coalition strikes in the south have highlighted fractures within Yemen’s ruling coalition, potentially shifting the balance of power toward the Iran-aligned Houthis.
Is it possible that Riyadh’s decision to move quickly to stop the STC in late December was linked to larger strategy issues in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden?
Saudi-backed National Shield Forces have been welcomed by residents in Mukalla — Yemen’s key eastern port city and the capital of Hadramout province — as they drove through the streets in
The statement follows a failed UAE-backed separatist offensive in southern Yemen that deepened tensions between Saudi Arabia and its Gulf ally.
Yet, like other regional alliances, the Saudi-UAE bloc has its own inherent Achilles’ heel that sometimes complicates its unity and resilience. Yemen long represented the most sensitive fault line in this partnership,
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A war within a war: Yemen's latest conflict
Yemen has been at war since Iran-backed Houthi rebels ousted the government in 2014, triggering a Saudi-led military intervention, but a new internal conflict has been brewing in recent weeks.The face-off involves rival armed factions loosely grouped under the government but separately backed by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Aden: Saudi-backed forces spread across Yemen’s Mukalla Sunday after retaking the port city, which was seized by southern separatists last month. Video footage taken by The Associated Press showed the Saudi-backed National Shield Forces being welcomed by residents as the troops drove through the streets in armed vehicles.
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group unleashed a tirade against Saudi Arabia on Friday over its intervention in Yemen, calling it "surprising and painful," and suggesting Riyadh would suffer a "humiliating defeat" if it didn't ...