Yemen declared a state of emergency Tuesday and demanded that the UAE forces leave the country ​within 24 hours, a call backed by Saudi Arabia.

Riyadh also warned that its national security was a red line, the strongest language against Abu Dhabi yet, just hours after a Saudi-led coalition carried ‍out an airstrike on the southern Yemeni port of Mukalla, against alleged foreign military support to UAE-backed southern separatists.

Yemen's presidential ‍council head, Rashad al-Alimi, also cancelled a defense pact with the UAE, t

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