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CNN: Saudi Arabia’s dispute with the UAE exposes a deeper regional power struggle
Saudi Arabia accuses UAE of backing separatists and destabilizing Yemen, Sudan, and Syria, with Riyadh launching airstrikes on UAE-linked targets in Yemen last week.
- Last week, Saudi Arabia publicly accused the United Arab Emirates of undermining its national security and launched strikes on a UAE-linked shipment in Yemen.
- In recent years, Saudi Arabia says the UAE mobilized separatists after a false White House request involving the Saudi Crown Prince and U.S. President Donald Trump, widening the rift.
- Both countries' positions near major chokepoints raise energy-market stakes, as Saudi Arabia says Yemen, Sudan and the Horn of Africa's proximity magnifies its exposure to UAE-linked instability.
- The UAE pledged to withdraw, yet anti-UAE rhetoric in Saudi state media has surged and further strikes targeting the Southern Transitional Council remain possible.
- Washington's ties to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates could make the U.S. a proxy venue for the dispute, and analysts say even limited deterioration risks energy market disruption.
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Saudi Arabia’s dispute with the UAE exposes a deeper regional power struggle
Saudi Arabia has publicly accused the United Arab Emirates – a fellow Gulf Arab state and former partner in the Yemen war – of undermining its national security, an unusually blunt charge that exposes a rift long kept behind closed doors.
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Saudi–UAE Strategic Friction and Regional Fragmentation
Recent escalation between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in southern Yemen reflects a more profound rupture rooted in diverging threat perceptions, regional ambitions, and competing visions for the Red Sea and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Riyadh now assesses Emirati-backed political and military structures in southern Yemen, notably those seeking de facto autonomy or formal partition, as crossing a strategic r…
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