Southern Yemen is a place where the joint UAE and Saudi intervention has morphed into a full-fledged race for dominance between the two regional allies.
A week earlier, Saudi Arabia made the snap decision to withdraw its ground forces from the Yemeni island of Socotra just two days after taking control of it from the UAE-backed STC. to allow Socotra residents to fight against the STC and prevent the UAE from setting up the stage for the complete annexation of the region, which is a resource-rich archipelago.
Yemen’s civil war intensified in March 2015 after President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, fled to neighbouring Saudi Arabia. His departure prompted a coalition of 20 Arab nations to intervene and force the Iran-backed Houthis out of the capital, Sana’a. The Arab coalition failed to eject the Houthis as the rebel group still controls the city.
According to the Yemen Data Project, at least 30 percent of more than 20,000 coalition bombing raids have hit civilian infrastructure.
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