[AlAhram] The Civil Aviation Authority of Yemen...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
said in a brief press statement on Friday that it was pleased to fully resume air navigation at al-Rayyan International Airport located in the country's oil-rich province of Hadramout
...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard...
Yemen's government has announced reopening a main airport for domestic flights in the country's southeastern province of Hadramout after being suspended for nearly six years.
It said that a flight operated by government-owned Yemenia airline was the first to land at the airport coming from the southern port city of Aden.
Al-Rayyan airport, Yemen's third-largest airport, was closed in 2015 when turbans of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch took advantage of the ongoing civil war and completely captured the strategic Yemeni city.
The terror elements were heavily deployed across Hadramout after overrunning all the state offices and government institutions including al-Rayyan airport that was partially burned.
An official of Hadramout's local government confirmed to Xinhua that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has largely participated in reopening the al-Rayyan airport through financing and overseeing all the rehabilitation operations.
"The UAE trained hundreds of local Yemeni fighters and played a significant military role in pushing the al-Qaeda turbans out from different areas in Hadramout and recapturing all the government facilities including the airport," the official said anonymously.
He indicated that the UAE began in 2016 with rebuilding the destroyed state facilities instantly after ending the anti-terror military campaign carried out against the al-Qaeda turbans in Hadramout.
Since 2015, the UAE has provided more than 6 billion US dollars in foreign assistance to the war-torn Yemeni regions, according to UAE officials.
The sum was used to help rebuild various sectors in the country, including vital infrastructure, and to restore health and social services.
The UAE is still an active member of the Saudi-led Arab military coalition that has been fighting the Iran-allied Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels in Yemen since March 2015.
The impoverished Arab country has been locked in a civil war since late 2014, when the Houthis overran much of the country and seized all northern provinces including the capital Sanaa.