The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council and Saudi-backed presidential guards have engaged in deadly clashes, threatening to open a new front in an already war-torn nation.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates may be close partners with a common goal defeating a rebel group in Yemen, but their diverging interests have come to a violent head as heavy clashes erupted between their respective allies in the war-torn nation.
"The United States is deeply concerned by the outbreak of violence and deadly clashes in Aden. We call on all parties to refrain from escalation and further bloodshed, and to resolve their differences through dialogue," the State Department said Thursday in a statement."Inciting further divisions and violence within Yemen will only increase the suffering of the Yemeni people and prolong the conflict.
Gun battles then reportedly broke out at a funeral for the slain southern fighters. Following an extraordinary southern council meeting chaired by Vice President Hani Ali bin Brik, a statement was issued"calling on southern people and their resistance to march to Maashiq Palace to overthrow the government of terrorism and corruption that is allied with the Islah terrorist party and put an end to its futility towards our people.
Yemeni fighters from the Popular Resistance Committee supporting forces loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed government take part in a graduation ceremony in the country's third city Taez, August 5. The bloody stalemate has come at high human cost in Yemen, but rifts in the Saudi-led coalition and new attacks claimed by the Houthis and ISIS signaled no end in sight for the war.
The UAE too has been seen as an important ally against Iran, though Abu Dhabi only downgraded its ties to Tehran and did not sever them completely in 2016, as did Riyadh. As unrest grew amid heated U.S.-Iran tensions in the Persian Gulf, however, the UAE has taken a distinct position.
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