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(UAE) FM Abdullah bin Zayed, accusing Turkish Fahreddin Pasha WW1, “Ransacking” Medina in 1916″

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Finally some of the Arab leader having the Backbone to stand up and Expose Turkish Crime against Humanity WW1, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan for sharing a Twitter post accusing Fahreddin Pasha of thievery, kidnapping other crimes against the local population. “These are Erdogan’s ancestors and their history with Arabs and Muslims,” the post said.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan for accusing Fahreddin Pasha, a Medina governor and commander of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, of “ransacking” Medina in 1916.
Erdoğan’s ancestors have stolen the sacred relic from Medina and brought it to Istanbul!

His comments came after al-Zayed retweeted a Twitter post on Dec. 16 that criticized the historical ties between the Ottoman Empire and Arab nations, accusing Fahreddin Pasha of committing crimes against the people during the Siege of Medina in 1916.

Lebanon’s Hariri travels to UAE after resigning as PM in Riyadh

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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri is seen at the governmental palace in Beirut, Lebanon, October 24, 2017. (Photo by Reuters)

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri has reportedly left Saudi Arabia, where he announced his surprise resignation last week, for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to hold talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Hariri left Riyadh for Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, according to a report by Future TV, which is owned by the senior Lebanese politician.

Saudi Arabia’s Al-Arabiya television also confirmed the report, saying that Hariri had met with the Emirati crown prince, without further elaboration.

Hariri announced his resignation in a televised statement from Riyadh, citing many reasons, including the security situation in Lebanon, for his sudden decision. He also said that he sensed a plot being hatched against his life.

Hariri accused Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement of meddling in Arab countries’ affairs; an allegation the two have repeatedly denied.

The surprise announcement has sparked a new political crisis at home in Lebanon, fueling speculations that the PM had been forced by the Riyadh regime into stepping down.

Lebanese Justice Minister Salim Jreissati said Tuesday that Hariri should return to the country and his resignation should be “voluntary” to be formally considered by President Aoun.

A few hours after the announcement of Hariri’s resignation in Saudi Arabia, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi vehemently rejected his remarks and said his resignation and rehashing of the “unfounded and baseless” allegations regularly leveled by the Zionists, Saudis and the US were another scenario to create new tensions in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, also said the country’s prime minister had been under pressure to resign his post.

Nasrallah noted that the announcement of Hariri’s resignation came after a number of visits to Saudi Arabia, adding that the text and style of his resignation clearly showed that it was not his own text and was a Saudi text dictated to the Lebanese prime minister.

Hariri, a close Riyadh ally, became prime minister of Lebanon in November last year after reaching a deal with other factions.

That power-sharing deal saw Aoun become president and ended a long power vacuum in the country.

Back then, observers described Aoun’s rise to power as a political victory for Hezbollah, which would gradually diminish the Saudi influence in Lebanon’s political arena. Riyadh had been vigorously lobbying to prevent Lebanon’s presidency from being placed in the hands of Hezbollah’s allies.

Saudi, UAE secretly worked for Kurdistan secession: Report

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman (L) talks to president of Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG) Masoud Barzani in Riyadh, Dec. 1, 2015.

Like Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have supported the Iraqi Kurdistan region’s push for secession in an attempt to “clip the wings” of Turkey, Iran and Iraq, a report says.

In an article published on Saturday, David Hearst, the editor in chief of the Middle East Eye (MEE) news portal, drew a parallel between Tel Aviv’s stance on the Kurdish vote and that of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.

The controversial Kurdish referendum took place on September 25, sparking strong objection from Baghdad and Iraq’s neighbors, particularly Iran and Turkey.

Only Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly voiced support for what he called the “legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state of its own.”

Major General Yair Golan, former Israeli army deputy chief, also defended the Kurdish secession as well as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is outlawed in Turkey.

“From my personal point of view the PKK is not a terrorist organization, that’s how I see it,” Golan said.

Al Saud and Tel Aviv see eye to eye

According to the report, while Saudi Arabia officially called for the cancellation of the plebiscite, behind the scene it supported the Kurds’ plans to split the Arab country and question the territorial integrity of its neighboring states.

The Saudi Royal Court reportedly dispatched a series of emissaries to encourage Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani to go on with his secession project.

Former Saudi military general, Anwar Eshki, was among those figures who explicitly said that working for the creation of a greater Kurdistan would “reduce Iranian, Turkish and Iraqi ambitions.”

“This will carve away one third of the territory of each country in favor of Kurdistan,” he reportedly said.

Eshki further told Russia’ Sputnik news agency that he believes “the Kurds have the right to have a state of their own” and claimed that Iraq had “gone far in marginalizing the Kurds.”

In July 2016, the ex-Saudi general paid a visit to Israel and met with a senior Israeli foreign ministry official and a number of Israeli parliament members.

Israeli daily Haaretz at the time described the visit as “a highly unusual one,” as Eshki could not have traveled to Israel without approval from the Saudi government.

UAE adds voice  

A “reliable source” told the MEE that Barzani’s son, Masrour, who heads the Kurdistan Region Security Council, made a secret visit to Abu Dhabi just a month before the September referendum.

UAE academics operating under the license of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued statements of support for the Kurdish vote.

Emirati professor Abdullah Abd al-Khaliq published a map depicting what he called the future state of Kurdistan and called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to penalize the Iraqi Kurdistan because of its “democratic” referendum.

Meanwhile, an Iraqi official told The New Arab media outlet that Erbil had signed a “memorandum of understanding” with Ibtesam al-Ketbi, chairwoman of the Emirates Policy Center, to help organize the Kurdish vote.

The New Arab quoted another Iraqi official as saying that UAE Consul in Kurdistan Rashid Al-Mansouri had visited a polling station in Erbil. The UAE, however, denied the report.

Source: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/10/22/539473/Iraq-Kurdistan-Saudi-Arabia-UAE-Iran

UAE foreign minister Shaikh Abdulla visits Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex

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UAE foreign minister visits Armenian Genocide Memorial Yerevan, July 19 (BNA): UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, H.H. Shaikh Abdulla bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on Tuesday visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex as part of his official visit to Armenia.
According to the UAE News Agency (WAM), Shaikh Abdulla placed a wreath on the memorial commemorating the 1.5 million Armenians killed during the Armenian Genocide in 1915.

The UAE Minister also observed a minute’s silence for the victims, and placed flowers under a 1.5 metre deep “eternal flame”, which burns throughout the year in memory of those who died.

Shaikh Abdulla expressed his appreciation at the privilege of visiting the monument, stressing the UAE’s keenness to promote the values of tolerance and peaceful coexistence among people and spread those messages throughout the world.

The memorial, which was built in 1967, is located on the hill of Tsitsernakaberd overlooking Yerevan and receives hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
Many thousands gather there on April 24th each year to mark Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, WAM said.

Report: UAE paid $3bn to finance coup attempt in Turkey:

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UAE turkey coupThe United Arab Emirates financed a high-profile coup attempt last year in Turkey and paid about three billion dollars to the putschists, a columnist in a Turkish daily has claimed.

Mehmet Acet, a columnist for Yeni Safak daily, said on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu meant the United Arab Emirates when he recently hinted at a Muslim country that spent billions to topple the Turkish government in the coup in July 2016.

Cavusoglu said in recent remarks that a foreign country funneled money to the putschists while making efforts to topple President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“We know that a country provided $3 billion in financial support for the coup attempt in Turkey and exerted efforts to topple the government in illegal ways. On top of that, it is a Muslim country,” said the Turkish foreign minister, as quoted by Acet.

Acet elaborated on his claims in an interview to the Turkish media, saying sources in the Turkish Foreign Ministry had confirmed that the country behind the coup was indeed the United Arab Emirates.

“The minister did not name the country. However, sources from the foreign ministry have confirmed that it was the UAE,” Acet told Daily Sabah newspaper.

Other sources have also claimed that a media magnet close to the government in Abu Dhabi had indeed transferred money to Turkey weeks before the coup was carried out. They said the money had been funneled to elements loyal to Fethullah Gulen, a cleric based in the United States who is accused by Ankara of masterminding the coup attempt.

Right after the coup was declared over on July 16 last year, Turkey launched a massive crackdown to hunt the plotters. The widening action then led to more than 40,000 arrests. More than 100,000 people have also been discharged from their jobs.

Turkey has not directly accused a country of having a role in the coup, which killed over 250 people. However, Cavusoglu’s remarks come amid a widening diplomatic standoff in the Persian Gulf region. Turkey has been defending Qatar against allegations of terrorism by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates while it has repeatedly endorsed Qatar’s support for senior officials from the Muslim Brotherhood, a popular party outlawed in Egypt since three years ago under pressure from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Ankara and Abu Dhabi are also at odds over the situation in Libya, where the two countries support different sides of the conflict.

Source: http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/06/13/525164/Turkey-coup-UAE

UAE: Qatar seeking protection from two non-Arab states Turkey and Iran is tragic

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UAE: Qatar seeking protection The UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Bin Mohammad Gargash, tweeted on Thursday that Qatar’s seeking protection from two non-Arab states – Turkey and Iran – is tragic and comical.

Gargash lambasted Qatar for seeking protection from abroad and said it was not a “solution,” adding that he “wished” the Qatari leadership would have resorted to “wisdom” and “not escalation.”

“Again, we call on [Qatar] to exercise its rationality, wisdom and get rid of its arrogance and stubbornness. Escalation won’t be beneficial, and feeling empowered due to outside support does not represent a solution, and the exit is a new discourse that is transparent and honest,” he said.

The minister said the “strangest” part is seeing the type of countries a “brother” takes sides with.

“An Iranian, Turkish, Hamas, revolutionary, political ideologue, Muslim Brotherhood, and we the Arab Gulf tries to change course of its brother.”

The minister also criticized how Qatar who is seeking protection from abroad, rejects interference in his country’s foreign policy and sovereignty,

Qatar’s foreign minister said on Thursday that “no one has the right to intervene in our foreign policy.”

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani told AFP “we are an independent country with sovereignty.”

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump is continuing to talk  with all partners in the Middle East to de-escalate tensions amid an ongoing diplomatic crisis between Qatar and other Arab powers, a White House spokeswoman said on Thursday, but gave no other details.

What’s behind curious gold traffic between Turkey and UAE?

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By Zülfikar Doğan

ANKARA, Turkey — While Turkey’s foreign exchange reserves are melting fast, its gold reserves have increased by 50 tons since the beginning of the year. An intriguing pattern, meanwhile, has emerged in Turkey’s gold trade with the United Arab Emirates, bringing to mind the oil-for-gold scheme with Iran that is still haunting Ankara.

Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who is accused of being the key figure running the scheme to circumvent US sanctions on the Islamic Republic, was arrested in the United States last year. In March, another high-profile figure — Mehmet Hakan Atilla, deputy president of Turkey’s public bank Halkbank — landed behind bars during a trip to New York on charges of colluding with Zarrab and facilitating his financial transactions.

Now the gold controversy is back on Turkey’s economic agenda yet again. The gold traffic between Turkey and the UAE is especially striking, with export and import figures raising myriad questions.

In times of economic strain, one of the first solutions that Turkish governments propose is to lure the gold that citizens keep “under the mattress” into the economy. Gold, along with foreign exchange, is a popular form of savings in Turkey, seen as a shield against inflation and the depreciation of the national currency.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek, who is in charge of the economy, Turkish citizens today are estimated to have gold savings at home, worth relatively close to $100 billion. In early April, Simsek announced plans to issue gold-denominated bonds to draw those savings into the economy.

Some pundits, however, believe that Turks are no longer willing to part with their gold. Nasrullah Ayan, a veteran of Turkey’s financial markets who helped found the Istanbul stock exchange, argues that the under-the-mattress gold savings have been repeatedly exploited with promises of high yields in the past and people have grown mistrustful of the state on this issue.

In December, when the Turkish lira entered freefall against the dollar, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged citizens to prop up the national currency by converting their foreign exchange savings to Turkish liras or gold, blaming the turbulence on malicious foreign forces. Yet few seemed to have heeded his call as no decrease was seen in foreign exchange deposits in banks. Moreover, the foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank have declined, standing at $102.7 billion at the end of April, down from $122 billion in August 2016.

Under international standards, a country’s foreign reserves are required to cover four to six months of imports at least. If the coverage drops to three months, the International Monetary Fund sees this as a serious economic risk or a red alarm. Given that Turkey’s annual imports are worth around $200 billion, its total reserves of $102 billion do not sound a red alarm yet, but are still a warning signal.

The drop in foreign reserves comes at a time when gold trade has picked up, notably with the UAE.

According to the World Gold Council’s latest data, released May 2, Turkey’s official gold reserves have climbed to 427.8 tons, up from 377.1 tons at the end of 2016. As a result, Turkey has moved from 15th to 13th place on the global gold reserve ranking.

The surging gold trade invokes the years of the oil-for-gold trade with Iran. In 2013, Turkey’s gold imports had hit a record high of $15 billion, including $2.8 billion in the first quarter. This year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) puts gold imports at $2.7 billion in the first quarter, almost on par with the corresponding period in 2013. Nearly half of those imports, worth $1.4 billion, came from the UAE. What is even more interesting, Turkey itself exported $1.7 billion worth of gold to the UAE in the same period.

According to the Turkish Gold Miners Association, the country’s record gold imports in 2013 amounted to 302 tons.

In December the same year, corruption and bribery probes rocked the government, implicating Zarrab as well as several ministers, who allegedly helped the businessman in return for kickbacks. The government responded with massive purges in the police and the judiciary, thwarting the probes. In the wake of the scandal, the trade scheme with Iran decelerated and so did Turkey’s gold trade in general. Gold imports fell to 131 tons in 2014 and then to 49 tons in 2015. Last year, however, the imports picked up anew, reaching 106 tons. Now, with the intriguing trade with the UAE, gold imports could well climb back to the 2013 level at the end of the year.

Turkey’s total gold exports were worth $531 million in January, $619 million in February and $740 million in March, according to official foreign trade data. The bulk of those exports were to the UAE — $400 million in January, $581 million in February and $678 million in March. In the same quarter, Turkey’s gold imports from the UAE amounted to $507 million in February and $692 million in March. The proximity in the import and export numbers can hardly escape attention, as if the same gold was coming and going between the two countries.

It is worth recalling that the UAE and especially Dubai were an essential element in the oil-for-gold trade between Turkey and Iran, serving as the link via which the gold traveled to the Islamic Republic after the sanctions froze it out of the international banking system.

According to TUIK figures from March, the UAE has become the second biggest buyer of Turkish exports after Germany. Yet why similar shipments of gold are coming and going between the two countries and who gains what from such exchanges requires explanation. One cannot help but wonder whether this curious form of trade may result in another “Zarrab case” or a corruption scandal similar to the one in 2013.

Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who is accused of being the key figure running the scheme to circumvent US sanctions on the Islamic Republic, was arrested in the United States last year. In March, another high-profile figure — Mehmet Hakan Atilla, deputy president of Turkey’s public bank Halkbank — landed behind bars during a trip to New York on charges of colluding with Zarrab and facilitating his financial transactions.

Now the gold controversy is back on Turkey’s economic agenda yet again. The gold traffic between Turkey and the UAE is especially striking, with export and import figures raising myriad questions.

In times of economic strain, one of the first solutions that Turkish governments propose is to lure the gold that citizens keep “under the mattress” into the economy. Gold, along with foreign exchange, is a popular form of savings in Turkey, seen as a shield against inflation and the depreciation of the national currency.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek, who is in charge of the economy, Turkish citizens today are estimated to have gold savings at home, worth relatively close to $100 billion. In early April, Simsek announced plans to issue gold-denominated bonds to draw those savings into the economy.

Some pundits, however, believe that Turks are no longer willing to part with their gold. Nasrullah Ayan, a veteran of Turkey’s financial markets who helped found the Istanbul stock exchange, argues that the under-the-mattress gold savings have been repeatedly exploited with promises of high yields in the past and people have grown mistrustful of the state on this issue.

In December, when the Turkish lira entered freefall against the dollar, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged citizens to prop up the national currency by converting their foreign exchange savings to Turkish liras or gold, blaming the turbulence on malicious foreign forces. Yet few seemed to have heeded his call as no decrease was seen in foreign exchange deposits in banks. Moreover, the foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank have declined, standing at $102.7 billion at the end of April, down from $122 billion in August 2016.

Under international standards, a country’s foreign reserves are required to cover four to six months of imports at least. If the coverage drops to three months, the International Monetary Fund sees this as a serious economic risk or a red alarm. Given that Turkey’s annual imports are worth around $200 billion, its total reserves of $102 billion do not sound a red alarm yet, but are still a warning signal.

The drop in foreign reserves comes at a time when gold trade has picked up, notably with the UAE.

According to the World Gold Council’s latest data, released May 2, Turkey’s official gold reserves have climbed to 427.8 tons, up from 377.1 tons at the end of 2016. As a result, Turkey has moved from 15th to 13th place on the global gold reserve ranking.

The surging gold trade invokes the years of the oil-for-gold trade with Iran. In 2013, Turkey’s gold imports had hit a record high of $15 billion, including $2.8 billion in the first quarter. This year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) puts gold imports at $2.7 billion in the first quarter, almost on par with the corresponding period in 2013. Nearly half of those imports, worth $1.4 billion, came from the UAE. What is even more interesting, Turkey itself exported $1.7 billion worth of gold to the UAE in the same period.

According to the Turkish Gold Miners Association, the country’s record gold imports in 2013 amounted to 302 tons.

In December the same year, corruption and bribery probes rocked the government, implicating Zarrab as well as several ministers, who allegedly helped the businessman in return for kickbacks. The government responded with massive purges in the police and the judiciary, thwarting the probes. In the wake of the scandal, the trade scheme with Iran decelerated and so did Turkey’s gold trade in general. Gold imports fell to 131 tons in 2014 and then to 49 tons in 2015. Last year, however, the imports picked up anew, reaching 106 tons. Now, with the intriguing trade with the UAE, gold imports could well climb back to the 2013 level at the end of the year.

Turkey’s total gold exports were worth $531 million in January, $619 million in February and $740 million in March, according to official foreign trade data. The bulk of those exports were to the UAE — $400 million in January, $581 million in February and $678 million in March. In the same quarter, Turkey’s gold imports from the UAE amounted to $507 million in February and $692 million in March. The proximity in the import and export numbers can hardly escape attention, as if the same gold was coming and going between the two countries.

It is worth recalling that the UAE and especially Dubai were an essential element in the oil-for-gold trade between Turkey and Iran, serving as the link via which the gold traveled to the Islamic Republic after the sanctions froze it out of the international banking system.

According to TUIK figures from March, the UAE has become the second biggest buyer of Turkish exports after Germany. Yet why similar shipments of gold are coming and going between the two countries and who gains what from such exchanges requires explanation. One cannot help but wonder whether this curious form of trade may result in another “Zarrab case” or a corruption scandal similar to the one in 2013.

 

Zülfikar Doğan
Contributor,  Turkey Pulse

Zülfikar Doğan began his career in journalism in 1976 at the Yanki news magazine in Ankara. He has worked as a reporter, news editor, representative and columnist at Milliyet, Posta, Aksam, Finansal Forum, Star and Karsi

 

UAE’s Ocean Holding to invest $100 mln in Armenia’s energy sector

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A memorandum of understanding was signed between Armenia‘s ministry of energy infrastructures and natural resources and Ocean Holding LLC in Abu Dhabi, UAE on Wednesday, March 22. The cooperation will seek to develop the renewable energy sector in Armenia and provide Ocean Holding an opportunity to make investments in solar energy projects.

Beginning this year, Ocean Holding intends to invest $100 million in solar photovoltaic power plants in Armenia and operate them using the most advanced technology currently available.

The ministry, in turns, aims to create favorable conditions for Ocean Holding. The investments will be carried out in several phases.

The deal was signed on the sidelines of the Armenia Investment Forum 2017 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, with Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan also participating.

UAE foreign minister condemns downing of Russian jet by Turkey

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United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan has condemned the downing of a Russian jet by Turkish F-16s, while addressing the fifth meeting of the UAE-Russia joint ministerial committee at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Abu Dhabi.

Speaking back on Nov. 27, al-Nahyan also underlined the UAE’s condemnation of a series of terrorist acts that recently struck many countries.

He criticized Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian SU-24 jet along with the deadly downing of a Russian airplane in Egypt that was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The statement did not address Turkey’s name directly, but simply condemned the downing of the jet.

A Russian SU-24 fighter jet was shot down by Turkey near the Syrian border due to the violation of Turkish airspace on Nov. 24.

Russian Trade and Industry Minister Denis Manturov chaired Moscow’s delegation at the UAE-Russia joint meeting, which was also attended by UAE Minister of State Sultan bin Ahmed Sultan al-Jaber, a number of senior officials and business representatives from both countries.

Ways to enhance bilateral economic, trade and investment cooperation were also discussed at the meeting.

 

Saudi-led coalition suffers deadliest day in Yemen, as UAE & Bahrain lose 50 troops

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ua-suadi-yemenIn its deadliest battle incident ever, United Arab Emirates forces have lost at least 45 soldiers fighting among the Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen, after Houthi rebels reportedly fired a rocket into weapons warehouse at a military camp.

The deadly incident took place in the oil-producing Marib area of central Yemen, allegedly after the Houthi missile struck an ammunitions depot. At least 22 Emirati soldiers were killed on the spot while 23 others died from their wounds hours later, UAE state news agency WAM reported.

“A rocket and an explosion at a weapons cache has targeted the martyrs,” UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said on Twitter.

The Houthis official confirmed that their fighters fired a Soviet-era Tochka missile in the area, AP reports.

https://twitter.com/HussainBukhaiti/status/639876100261179392

In a separate incident five Bahraini soldiers were killed while “defending the southern border of Saudi Arabia,” Bahrain’s official news agency BNA said.

The Saudi-led coalition of Gulf nations has been launching airstrikes on Yemeni territory since March, targeting Houthi rebels and troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in order to bring back to power President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi deposed earlier this year.

Friday’s death toll for UAE military is the largest the country’s forces have ever faced after being founded as a state in 1971. The previous death toll stood at six soldiers, all of whom died in combat in Kuwait in 1991.

Meanwhile in US, President Barack Obama hosting Saudi Arabia’s King Salman where he expressed hop for an inclusive, functioning government in Yemen, but has failed to condemn Saudi-led operation.

“We share concerns about Yemen and the need to restore a function government that is inclusive and that can relieve the humanitarian situation there,” Obama told reporters.

At the same time the UN has released a further $15 million to help the suffering of the civilians.

“The civilian population is bearing the brunt of the conflict: a shocking four out of five Yemenis require humanitarian assistance and nearly 1.5 million people are internally displaced,” said Stephen O’Brien, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, who is also the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, as he announced additional funds.