![A soldier loyal to the Saudi and UAE-backed government, manning a machine gun mounted on a vehicle passing by a mural depicting the late UAE founder and president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, along a street in the southeastern port city of Mukalla, the capital Hadramawt province on 8 August 2018 [KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-1016080740Emirati-soldiers-in-Yemen.jpg?fit=1194%2C800&ssl=1)
The United States Defence Department confirmed that American forces found six wounded members of the UAE military after they were hit in an anti-terrorism operation targeting Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
The Pentagon said that it had provided intelligence and air support for the Emirati soldiers, according to Al Jazeera.
The US military stressed that the operation was “in support of counterterrorism operations, not the Saudi-led Coalition in their fight against the Houthis.”
They did not provide details of the venue where the wounded soldiers were found.
In recent days, the US Senate voted to progress a bill to end America’s military support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
The UAE is part of a Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting in Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthis and forces loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The coalition entered the war in 2015 to reinstate the UN-backed President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. However the UAE has been found to be backing the Southern Transitional Council in an effort to split Yemen in to two countries, North and South, contrary to the objectives of the coalition.
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