Saudi Arabia: Challenges mount in Yemen


Issue 992 - 08 May 2015 | 4 minute read

As the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen entered its second month (GSN 991/1, 990/1), reports emerged on 3 May that a small contingent of Arab troops had arrived on the ground in Aden. Saudi Arabia denied that a ground operation was under way, though it refused to comment on the presence of special forces; on 4 May, Yemen’s foreign minister Reyad Yassin Abdullah told Reuters in an interview in Riyadh that the soldiers were Yemeni forces who had been trained in the Gulf Arab states, rather than foreign soldiers.

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