INSIDE THE UAE’S WAR ON AL-QAEDA IN YEMEN

Source: The Independent

By Bel Trew

The Emirati soldiers in Yemen’s port city of Aden were starting to get jumpy. We had only spent 15 minutes in Dar Saad, one of the city’s worst hit districts from the ongoing war, when they thought security had been compromised. This section of the neighbourhood is deeply impoverished and divided.

It is also where the Shia Houthi rebel group first entered the city back in March 2015 when they swept control of the country and ousted the recognised Yemeni government, prompting the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen.

“We have to go back a different way, groups may have laid land mines or IEDs along the road we originally took while we’ve been here,” said one of the officers quietly. The 15-vehicle armoured convoy swiftly rolled away.

Read more at: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/uae-yemen-civil-war-al-qaeda-aden-dar-saad-gulf-saudi-arabia-conflict-a8492021.html

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