Yemeni rebels' attack on UAE leaves US and allies with few good options
BEIRUT — The swarm of drones and missiles traveled almost 1,000 miles before streaking over Abu Dhabi's skyscrapers on Monday morning.
Some then split off toward the industrial district of Mussafah, just a few miles away from the United Arab Emirates' Al-Dhafra Airbase where U.S. forces are stationed, and smacked into large petroleum trucks of the state-owned oil company. The blast killed three people and injured six others.
The rest swerved toward Abu Dhabi International Airport and started a small fire in a construction site on the periphery, authorities said.
The attack, for which the Iran-backed Houthi militia claimed responsibility, marked the latest escalation in Yemen's grinding seven-year civil war. It also complicated the calculus for the U.S. and its regional allies in a conflict with what appears to be only bad options.
The Houthis, members of a Shiite movement that had fought the Yemeni government for decades, first snatched control of Sana, the capital,
