️🇸🇦🇦🇪🇾🇪 Foreign policy: Saudi Arabia aims to repair relations with the United Arab Emirates, as Houthi forces make territorial gains in Yemen and intensify attacks on Saudi territory, energy infrastructure and airports. Renewed cooperation between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi may help strengthen the fragmented forces opposing the Houthis.
The UAE maintains considerable influence over the Southern Transitional Council (STC). Abu Dhabi's support for the STC has repeatedly put it at odds with Riyadh, which favors maintaining Yemen's territorial unity.
The renewed coordination between Saudi Arabia and the UAE may strengthen the anti-Houthi front, but disagreements over the political future of the STC and Yemen remain a major obstacle.