(New York Times) Declan Walsh and David D. Kirkpatrick - For four years, the United Arab Emirates have been the military linchpin of the Saudi-led war in Yemen, providing weapons, money and 5,000 ground troops to a campaign to drive out Yemen's Houthi rebels. Emirati forces led almost every major advance the coalition made. Now the Emiratis are withdrawing their forces at a scale and speed that all but rules out further ground advances, a belated recognition that the grinding war is no longer winnable. A senior Emirati official said Emirati forces have trained 90,000 Yemeni soldiers to fill the vacuum after their departure.
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