Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, 30 December 2025, launched airstrikes on two ships loaded with military vehicles and other military equipment.

The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday that it was pulling out its remaining forces in Yemen, after Saudi Arabia bombed the war-torn country’s port city of Mukalla following accusations that two ships from the UAE had delivered weapons and combat vehicles to separatist forces.

The two Gulf heavyweights have seen their interests diverge on everything from oil quotas to geopolitical influence.

Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla, targeting a shipment of weapons from the United Arab Emirates for separatist forces. The UAE later said it would withdraw its forces from Yemen.

For years, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia projected geopolitical and economic power across the Gulf and beyond, seemingly in tandem.But a growing rivalry and struggle for influence has come to a head -- most recently in Yemen -- following years of divergence over a tangle of competing interests that reach from regional waterways to the corridors of power in Washington,

The confrontation threatened to open a new front in Yemen’s decadelong war, with forces allied against the Iran-backed Houthis possibly turning their sights on each other in the Arab world’s poorest nation,

A giant billboard drawing attention to the United Arab Emirates ' role in the Sudan war can now be seen in central London. The poster, which repeats every 80 seconds throughout the day and night, features an AI-generated image of a young woman in an infinity swimming pool, taking a selfie with the Dubai skyline behind her.

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From Yemen and Sudan to Israel and Somaliland, the UAE has built a wide network of allies, investments, and security ties aimed at countering political Islam and shaping regional power dynamics.