Yemen: Heavy Clashes after UAE-Backed Forces Seize Key City

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The UAE-backed STC offensive marks a dangerous expansion of the group's separatist drive from Aden into eastern Yemen, deepening instability and further eroding the country's already fragile unity. Advancing into Hadramout under the guise of security operations allows the STC to facilitate the steady looting of local resources, leaving ordinary Hadramis to shoulder the costs of an agenda shaped in Abu Dhabi rather than by Yemenis themselves.