How the UAE is destroying #Yemen | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/how-uae-destroying-yemen-421364462
Et encore une guerre par procuration qui n’intéresse pas du tout les #MSM,
The UAE’s rift with Saudi Arabia has also been problematic. Riyadh has supported Islah, Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood branch, as a stable ally on the ground. But the UAE opposes the Brotherhood, instead backing militants who maintain non-hostile relations with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) - which it is supposed to be fighting - to counteract Islah, researcher Helen Lackner notes in her book Yemen in Crisis. As such, the UAE is in a proxy war with Saudi Arabia in Yemen.