Yemen’s Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council slams the UAE for running secret prisons near the port city of Mukalla.

Turkey is reportedly seeking to join Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in a NATO-style military alliance, potentially creating a new security alignment that could affect regional balances.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says the leader of the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) has fled to the United Arab Emirates via Somaliland after skipping peace talks in Riyadh.

The Saudi-backed coalition has carried out a series of strikes in southern Yemen, targeting an arms depot used by leader of the pro-secession Southern Transitional Council (STC) Aidarous al-Zubaidi.

Saudi warplanes have bombed separatists in southern Yemen backed by the United Arab Emirates, leaving seven killed, amid tensions between the two Persian Gulf Arab nations.

The Saudi-led military coalition says it would respond directly and immediately to any military movements by the Aden-based and pro-secession Southern Transitional Council (STC) that undermine de-escalation efforts.

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Defense confers the King Abdulaziz Medal on Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces and Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir.