{"id":4979,"date":"2026-01-05T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/05\/saudi-airstrikes-uae-backed-forces-yemen-al-mahrah\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:45:17","slug":"saudi-airstrikes-uae-backed-forces-yemen-al-mahrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/05\/saudi-airstrikes-uae-backed-forces-yemen-al-mahrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Airstrikes Target UAE-Backed Forces in Eastern Yemen&#8217;s Al-Mahrah Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources reported that Saudi Arabian fighter jets have conducted a new round of airstrikes on positions held by forces affiliated with the Southern Transitional Council in Yemen\u2019s eastern Al-Mahrah province. According to these sources, the air raids specifically targeted the command headquarters of the &#8220;Al-Ghaydah Axis&#8221; in the center of Al-Mahrah province. This operation came after elements linked to the UAE opposed the evacuation of this headquarters. Following the attacks, a safe passage was established to facilitate the withdrawal of these forces from Al-Mahrah province, enabling their transfer to the city of Aden. A few days earlier, Saudi warplanes had also bombed arms shipments sent from the UAE to Yemen, which informed sources indicated were intended for the Southern Transitional Council forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi airstrikes hit UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council forces in Yemen&#8217;s Al-Mahrah, targeting command centers and blocking UAE arms shipments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}