10 UAE backed troops killed in Yemen Islamist attack

Ten Yemeni soldiers trained and backed by the United Arab Emirates were killed yesterday in an attack by armed Islamist extremists in southwest Yemen. 

A high-ranking military source said five gunmen were also killed in the attack on a military post in the Hajr district of the port city Mukalla. A source at the Ibn Sina military hospital in Mukalla confirmed that 10 soldiers had been pronounced



dead after the attack.

Mukalla, located on the Gulf of Aden, has been controlled by the Saudi-backed government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi since 2016, when Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen withdrew from the city. 

The UAE is a key member of a military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, which has fought alongside the Yemeni government against.