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.

The confrontation threatened to open a new front in Yemen’s decadelong war, with forces allied against the Iran-backed Houthis possibly turning their sights on each other in the Arab world’s poorest nation,

It comes after clashes and an independence bid in southern Yemen bring Saudi and UAE-backed forces into confrontation.

Saudi Arabia has launched an air strike on a Yemeni port, targeting what it said were shipments of weapons and combat vehicles from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) destined for southern separatist forces.

Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla on Tuesday over what it described as a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates.

Analysts say talk has swirled of rifts on several issues between Saudi Arabia's MBS and the man once thought of as his mentor, the Emirates' Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Heavy rain forced the cancellation of the Saudi Arabia vs UAE third-place match at the Arab Cup Qatar 2025, FIFA confirms.

Saudi Arabian air strikes on a southern Yemeni port targeted weapons supplied by the United Arab Emirates to local separatist forces