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Title: U.A.E. Pulls Most Forces From Yemen in Blow to Saudi War Effort
Post by: TomSea on July 12, 2019, 06:34:22 am

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U.A.E. Pulls Most Forces From Yemen in Blow to Saudi War Effort
By Declan Walsh and David D. Kirkpatrick

    July 11, 2019

For four years, the United Arab Emirates have been the military linchpin of the Saudi-led war in Yemen, providing weapons, money and thousands of ground troops to a campaign to drive out Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Emirati forces led almost every major advance the coalition made.

Now they have decided they can go no further.

The Emiratis are withdrawing their forces at a scale and speed that all but rules out further ground advances, a belated recognition that a grinding war that has killed thousands of civilians and turned Yemen into a humanitarian disaster is no longer winnable.

Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/world/middleeast/yemen-emirates-saudi-war.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/world/middleeast/yemen-emirates-saudi-war.html)