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Having successfully expelled forces linked to the Al-Islah Party from Yemen’s oil-rich Shabwa province in 2022, pro-Southern Transition Council (STC) groups are now aiming to remove the last remnants of fighters from the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group from Wadi Hadramawt – a strategically-important 640km-long valley at the centre of Hadramawt province.

Yemen
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The Royal Saudi Naval Force (RSNF) handed over the command of the Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) to the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN) in January, in a ceremony at the US naval base in Bahrain. RN Captain James Byron has taken over from the RSNF's Rear Admiral Abdullah Bin Miteb Al-Mutairi.

Saudi Arabia
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A number of Kilo-class submarines were seen during Exercise Zulfaqar 1401, held by the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (Nedaja) in early January, following a period when all of the boats had been out of service.

Iran
Issue 1161 - 14 January 2023

Yemen: US Navy seizes Iranian rifles

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The United States Navy said it had seized 2,116 AK-47 assault rifles in the Gulf of Oman in January that were being sent from Iran to Yemen.

Iran | Yemen
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For all United Nations special envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg’s efforts at shuttle diplomacy, the continued failure to relaunch the UN-backed ceasefire – which ended in October – has raised the prospect of renewed threats to shipping in the waters around Yemen. This has particular resonance for the UAE, which has often resorted to using commercial vessels as part of its security response.

Yemen | United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force provides a command and control template that facilitates the IRGC’s work with allies across the region, led by Lebanese Hizbollah and apparent in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Iran | Yemen
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The failure of Yemen’s warring parties to renew their truce in October is regarded by many observers as a sign of both the increasing strength of the Houthi rebel group and a failure of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) to resolve its own internal differences.

Yemen
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The United Kingdom military has begun a new regime in which advanced brigade combat team training will be transferred from Canada to Oman. Under the new training format, two four-month rotations will be carried out in the sultanate every year, meaning that the British Army will have an acclimatised and desert-trained presence in the Gulf for most of the year.

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The UAE appears to be trialling the Israeli Barak-8 air defence system, with satellite imagery from an air defence site at Al-Muqatra south of Abu Dhabi suggesting a Hawk air defence battery previously at the site has been replaced by two launchers and a radar from the Israeli system, as first noted on Twitter by Ben Reuter.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) | Israel
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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force revived its drone, artillery and missile attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) on 14 November, around five weeks after a previous wave of attacks had ended. IRGC officials said they were targeting the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) and Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan (Komalah), which they view as terrorist organisations.

Iran | Iraq
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The UAE appears to have strengthened its presence at Al-Riyan airfield outside Mukalla, in Yemen’s Hadramawt governorate. Since July, a new apron, three hangars and accommodation units have been built at the airfield, according to satellite imagery analysis posted on Twitter by @VleckieHond.

Yemen | United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Since the six-month ceasefire in Yemen ended in early October, Houthi forces have launched a series of drone attacks on energy infrastructure targets. To date, they have caused minimal damage, but the rebel group showed during the summer that it has a large stock of weapons at its disposal and more strikes seem likely.

Yemen
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Forces aligned with Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) have claimed a major victory in Abyan, following an operation launched on 23 August to clear the governorate of "terrorist elements".

Yemen
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After Iranian drones were reported to have attacked apartment buildings and other civilian targets in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Tehran and Moscow denied the Islamic Republic had supplied any such equipment. However, there is clear evidence that points in the other direction.

Iran
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Iran has voiced concerns that recent fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which flared up again in September, will impact its direct trucking routes through Armenia via the Lachin corridor to Georgia and Russia. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: "The Islamic Republic will not tolerate policies or plans that lead to the closing of the Iran-Armenia border."

Iran