UAE Withdrawal Marks Failure of Yemen Invaders By Hanif Ghaffari Yemen Extra, July 16, 2019

Yemeni Qasef 2K drones targeted Saudi military facilities and aircraft hangars in the Khamis Mushayt airbase, July 16, 2019	One of the Saudi tankers attacked in the UAE port of Fujaira, May 13, 2019 meed

 

The failure of Yemen invaders

It has been four years since the Yemen war started, but the Saud Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other invaders have not been able to succeed even in a small part of their plans in Yemen.

The bravery and resistance of Yemenis has now forced UAE to leave the battlefield, even though the country has been among the main invaders of Yemen for years.

After this, the fate of Saudi Arabia in Yemen war is completely clear. UAE’s withdrawal from the Yemen war was the worst news ever to Saudi Arabia and now Riyadh can only await a bitter failure.

Now, more than ever, Saudis are alone in Yemen. In this situation, Riyadh has no choice other than accepting the defeat.

According to a New York Times report, UAE has come to the conclusion that the Saudi-Emirati coalition has no chance of winning in Yemen, and has decided to leave the war-torn country, despite pressures from Saudi Arabia.

Many UAE officials have announced that the country is definitely leaving Yemen. An Emirati official, who did not want to reveal his name, has said that “Abu Dhabi aims to change its strategy in Yemen from war to peace,” therefore, UAE forces will soon leave Al Hadida port and other parts of Yemen.

According to a report by the New York Times, departure of UAE from Yemen will ruin most of Saudi Arabia’s efforts in Yemen, so it has left the Saudis with great frustration and disappointment. Obviously, in the near future, Saudis will become even more vulnerable in Yemen.

Over the last four years of war in Yemen, UAE has had a vital role and provided the lion share of financial and military support. Up to now, UAE has sent thousands of men to Yemen and has led many operations, but now the country has come to the conclusion that it is no longer able to stay in this war.

Now, Saudis have lost their main partner in the war. Soon, Mohammad Bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia will become the symbol of failure in Yemen and Saudis will accept their defeat.

The burden on Saudi Arabia is so heavy that they have practically begged the UAE to reduce their forces in Yemen instead of leaving the country altogether.

In recent weeks, Emiratis who once had more than five thousand forces in Yemen, said they want to evacuate their forces gradually and the retreat will be a step-by-step process, but some western and Arab diplomats have informed the New York Times that UAE has expedited the process and has already removed a large part of its forces from Yemen.

Anyway, it seems that the huge costs of war started putting a great burden on the UAE, and the country decided to leave the war, despite the anger of Saudi officials. In the near future, more news about the withdrawal of UAE forces from Yemen will come on the air and it will definitely come as a hard blow to the Saudis.

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Yemenis respond to the Saudi-led coalition hardly and softly!

 July 16, 2019, YemenExtra, Y.A

The Yemeni army forces launched drone attacks on Tuesday against military airbase in Khamis Mushayt of Asir province in the south of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the army spokesman said in a statement obtained by YemenExtra.

The Qasef 2K drones targeted military facilities and aircraft hangars in the airbase, hitting the targets accurately, spokesman confirmed.

He added the strikes come in retaliatory response to the war crimes and violations against the Yemeni people.

Leader of the Revolution Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi met on the same day with the UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths to discussed the UN-sponsored Sweden agreement developments on Hodeidah province.

At the meeting, al-Houthi held the coalition and its paid fighters the fully responsible for the crimes and violations committed against citizens in Hodeidah.

“Yemen is ready for a just peace if the aggression states stop the brutal war, lift the unjust siege for airports and ports,” al-Houthi said.

During the meeting, Sayyed al-Houthi touched upon the Supreme Political Council’s initiative to open a special account at the Central Bank branch in Hodeidah for the states employees’ salaries, reminding the United Nations that the initiative agreeing with Stockholm Agreement.

In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.

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