(FNA)- The Yemeni attack on the United Arab Emirates on Monday showed off the military advances that Yemeni forces have made in recent years, with the retaliatory strike on Abu Dhabi amounting to the most visible display of their military progress in the face of ferocious Saudi-led war, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The report came a day after the impoverished country’s defense forces staged their latest bout of retaliatory strikes against Abu Dhabi and parts of Saudi Arabia.
The Yemeni forces “have hit the UAE before, but this was the first time the Emiratis acknowledged it”, wrote the US daily.
The strike showed how the Yemeni forces have become emboldened in striking members of the Saudi-led coalition after emerging stronger from years of Saudi war, The Journal added.
With its strikes on Abu Dhabi’s airport and a state-owned oil facility, the Yemenis were ostensibly retaliating for the UAE’s intensified role supporting the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemen war.
The Yemeni counterstrikes was a display of the military advancements made by forces “that less than a decade ago relied on machineguns and rocket launchers”.
Now, they could hit targets lying “1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away from their Yemeni mountain strongholds”, the newspaper said....
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