Recent shifts in Yemen’s political landscape suggest the country is entering a new phase, marked above all by a distinctly Saudi-led recalibration of how the Yemen file is managed, following the retreat of the Emirati role.

Amid the takeover of Seiyun, the largest city in Yemen’s Hadramout Valley, by the UAE-backed STC militia, Saudi Arabia has dispatched a high-level delegation led by Maj. Gen. Mohammed bin Ubayd al-Qahtani in an apparent bid to defuse tensions in the oil-rich province.

As theUAE presents itself to the world as a model of Arab modernity, openness, and innovation, the walls of its ruling palace conceal an intense power struggle between two influential brothers: Thnoun bin Zayed, and Hazza bin Zayed.

In near-total silence and far from the media spotlight, one of Egypt’s largest privately owned farms has slipped into the hands of an Emirati company.

In a fresh scandal, Washington has added seven companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates to its sanctions program targeting entities involved in the war in Sudan.