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Yemeni rebels launch second attack on UAE within a week

by Jeremy Binnie

The Yemen rebel group Ansar Allah (Houthis) attacked the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a second time in a week on 24 January, although this time inflicted no casualties.

The group announced that it targeted Al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi with an unspecified number of Zulfiqar ballistic missiles; unidentified “important sites” in Dubai with Samad-3 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); and several unidentified sites in southern Saudi Arabia with Samad-1 and Qasef-2K UAVs, as well as short-range ballistic missiles.

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