Is Yemen's civil war escalating again?

也门内战是否再次升级?

Newshour

2025-12-31

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The United Arab Emirates has agreed to withdraw its forces from Yemen after a Saudi bombing of the port of Mukalla. Saudi authorities say it targeted weapons intended for UAE-backed separatists who threatened its security. Also in the programme: the latest search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 begins today; why a Japanese folk tale of a ghost that haunts school toilets still persists; and we look ahead to some of the big stories of next year with our correspondents who cover health, the environment and sport. (Picture: People hold a South Yemen flag during a rally calling for South Yemen's independence, in the southern port city of Aden on 25 December 2025. Credit: NAJEEB MOHAMED/EPA/Shutterstock)
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  • Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.

  • Coming to you live from London, I'm Krupa Bhatti.

  • Thanks for being with us.

  • Coming up later in the programme.

  • The end of the road for the Danish Postal Service.

  • But what will happen to those who still want to write a letter?

  • Plus, a new search is underway for the Malaysia airline flight MH370 that went missing 12 years ago.

  • Imagine you put a bus somewhere in Wales and you're going to look for that bus.

  • That's the challenge in itself, but imagine doing that with your eyes closed.

  • That all coming up later in the program.

  • But first we begin with an escalation with the war in Yemen, often called the world's forgotten war.

  • Almost five million people have been forced from their homes.

  • Over 18 million are in need of humanitarian assistance and hundreds of thousands have been killed.

  • It can be tricky to understand the dynamics of this war and who controls what in Yemen.

  • So let's try and map this out simply before getting the very latest.

  • Yemen is at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and it's been embroiled in a civil war for over a decade now between the Iranian-backed Houthis in the West and the internationally recognised government known as the Presidential Leadership Council,

  • or PLC, elsewhere in the country.

  • The PLC is backed by Saudi Arabia, which shares a long border with Yemen,

  • and the United Arab Emirates also joined the Saudi-led military coalition against the Houthis in 2014.

  • But a UAE-backed faction has now taken control of Yemen's south, pushing out Saudi Arabia's allies.