Saudi-UAE contest for the empty quarter: Implications for IndiaSaudi bombings of Mukalla, Yemen, have escalated tensions with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, threatening to reignite the ci...
02 Jan, 2026, 05.05 PM IST
Explained: Why Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen and issued a warning to the UAE?Saudi Arabia struck an unauthorized arms shipment in Yemen, issuing a strong warning to the UAE. This action revealed significant disagreem...
31 Dec, 2025, 03.02 PM IST
Escalation in Yemen threatens to reignite civil war and create wider tensions in Gulf regionSaudi Arabia bombed Mukalla, Yemen, targeting weapons for separatists. This move by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council threatens ...
30 Dec, 2025, 10.35 PM IST
UAE to pull forces out of Yemen as 24-hour deadline setThe United Arab Emirates is pulling its troops out of Yemen. This follows a demand from Saudi Arabia to withdraw within 24 hours. Tensions ...
30 Dec, 2025, 09.56 PM IST
UAE says it is withdrawing its remaining forces in Yemen voluntarily in crisis with Saudi ArabiaUnited Arab Emirates forces are leaving Yemen. This follows a Saudi Arabia-backed airstrike on Mukalla port. The strike targeted a shipment...
30 Dec, 2025, 08.37 PM IST
A war within a war: Yemen's latest conflictYemen faces a new internal conflict. Rival factions, supported by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are fighting for control of southern provinces....
30 Dec, 2025, 08.11 PM IST
Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen port over weapons shipment from UAE, issues warning to Abu DhabiSaudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla after a UAE weapons shipment arrived for separatist forces, warning of "extremely dangerou...
30 Dec, 2025, 06.03 PM IST
Saudi Arabia condemns 'dangerous' UAE moves in Yemen, bombs arms shipmentSaudi Arabia declared a UAE-backed separatist advance in Yemen a threat to the kingdom's national security on Tuesday and called Abu Dhabi'...
30 Dec, 2025, 05.43 PM IST
Saudi Arabia demands Yemen separatists withdraw forcesSaudi Arabia warned Saturday it would back Yemen's government in any military confrontation with separatist forces and urged them to withdr...
27 Dec, 2025, 05.49 PM IST
Yemen separatists accuse Saudi Arabia of launching airstrikes against their forcesSeparatist forces in southern Yemen claim Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes against them. This follows the separatists' recent takeover of k...
26 Dec, 2025, 09.25 PM IST
US-led strikes on Yemeni rebels draw attention back to war raging in Arab world's poorest nationYemen has been targeted by U.S. military action over the last four American presidencies. A campaign of drone strikes began under President...
12 Jan, 2024, 02.02 PM IST
UAE relations with US facing 'stress test': Emirati diplomatYousef al-Otaiba, the Emirati ambassador to the US, was speaking days after the UAE abstained in a UN Security Council vote on a resolution...
03 Mar, 2022, 01.39 PM IST
Drones across empty quarter: A lot at stakeThe seven-year-old Yemeni conflict seems to have reignited across multiple theatres during the past three weeks.
25 Jan, 2022, 11.53 PM IST
UAE, US intercept Houthi missile attack targeting Abu DhabiHouthi military spokesman Yehia Sarei claimed the attack in a televised statement, saying the rebels targeted several sites in the UAE with...
25 Jan, 2022, 08.12 AM IST
Yemen officials demand answers after media report on air baseAnother official openly criticized the UAE for "undermining" the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. A Saudi-led coalition fou...
26 May, 2021, 02.55 PM IST
Mysterious air base being built on volcanic island off YemenWhile no country has claimed the Mayun Island air base in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, shipping traffic associated with a prior attempt to bui...
25 May, 2021, 02.05 PM IST
UAE dismantles Eritrea base as it pulls back after Yemen warThe UAE built a port and expanded an airstrip in Assab beginning in September 2015, using the facility as a base to ferry heavy weaponry an...
18 Feb, 2021, 12.32 PM IST