{"id":493460,"date":"2026-01-05T06:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/493460\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:15:17","slug":"saudi-backed-forces-regain-control-of-yemens-hadramout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/493460\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-backed forces regain control of Yemen’s Hadramout"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADEN, Yemen (AP) \u2014 Saudi-backed forces spread across Yemen\u2019s Mukalla<\/a> on Sunday after retaking the port city which was seized by southern separatists last month. The capital of Hadramout province was retaken by Yemen\u2019s internationally recognized government following days of Saudi airstrikes.<\/a><\/p>\n

Video footage obtained by The Associated Press showed the Saudi-backed National Shield Forces being welcomed by residents as the troops drove through streets in armed vehicles. Forces also were seen driving around and outside Mukalla\u2019s al-Rayyan Airport.<\/p>\n

Ahmed Samaan and Bakr al-Ketheri, residents of the Hadramout towns of al-Qatn and Seiyun, told the AP that the Emirati-backed separatist Southern Transitional Council, or STC, had withdrawn from military camps.<\/p>\n

Tensions rose after the STC moved last month into the governorates of Hadramout and Mahra<\/a> and seized an oil-rich region. That pushed out forces affiliated with National Shield Forces, which are aligned with the Saudi-led coalition in fighting the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n

Yemen has been engulfed in civil war for more than a decade, with the Houthis controlling much of the north and the Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized government in the south. But the United Arab Emirates, a coalition member, also supports the separatists.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Rashad al-Alimi, head of Yemen\u2019s Presidential Leadership Council \u2014 the ruling organ of the internationally recognized government \u2014 said on Facebook that the National Shield Forces achieved \u201crecord success\u201d in taking back all military and security sites in Hadramout.<\/p>\n

Salem al-Khanbashi, the governor of Hadramout, was chosen on Friday by the government to command the Saudi-led forces in the governorate.<\/p>\n

\u0650\u0650\u0650\u0650\u0650Al-Alimi on Saturday called Mohamed Ali Yasser, the governor of Mahra, for a progress report on the handover of camps and facilities to the National Shield Forces and local authorities. It was unclear whether the handover had been completed.<\/p>\n

The southern separatists in Yemen said Saudi warplanes carried out new airstrikes<\/a> on a military camp in Mukalla<\/a> on Saturday and other areas where their forces are stationed.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia in recent weeks has bombed<\/a> STC positions and struck what is said was a shipment of Emirati weapons<\/a>. After Saudi pressure and an ultimatum from anti-Houthi forces to withdraw from Yemen, the UAE said Saturday it had withdrawn its forces.<\/p>\n

The tensions in Yemen have further strained ties between Saudi Arabia and the UAE<\/a>, neighbors on the Arabian Peninsula that have competed over economic issues and regional politics, particularly in the Red Sea area<\/a>. Ostensibly, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have shared the coalition\u2019s professed goal of restoring Yemen\u2019s internationally recognized government.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia\u2019s foreign ministry said Saturday it will host a conference in Riyadh to bring together all southern factions in Yemen \u201cto discuss just solutions to the southern cause.\u201d The STC welcomed the invitation to sponsor the dialogue, saying it\u2019s the \u201conly rational means to address political issues, foremost among them the issue of the people of the south and their right to restore their state.\u201d<\/p>\n

No details have been given about the conference, but Saudi Arabia announced the initiative in response to a request for dialogue from al-Alimi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADEN, Yemen (AP) \u2014 Saudi-backed forces spread across Yemen\u2019s Mukalla on Sunday after retaking the port city which…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":470470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[222199,57,222198,50,80,201370,2060,64955,64677,103,107,13193,201371],"class_list":{"0":"post-493460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-bakr-al-ketheri","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-mohamed-ali-yasser","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-rashad-al-alimi","14":"tag-rebellions-and-uprisings","15":"tag-saudi-arabia-government","16":"tag-united-arab-emirates-government","17":"tag-world","18":"tag-world-news","19":"tag-yemen","20":"tag-yemen-government"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115841029079476133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}