{"id":13556,"date":"2026-01-22T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/evacuations-conclude-as-yemen-airlifts-over-600-tourists-from-socotra-after-uae-pullout\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:51:25","slug":"evacuations-conclude-as-yemen-airlifts-over-600-tourists-from-socotra-after-uae-pullout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/evacuations-conclude-as-yemen-airlifts-over-600-tourists-from-socotra-after-uae-pullout\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations Conclude as Yemen Airlifts Over 600 Tourists From Socotra After UAE Pullout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Socotra_satview-e1768083008429.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yemen\u2019s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the evacuation of all tourists trapped on Socotra Island has now been completed, marking the end of a weeklong effort to move stranded visitors out after commercial flights abruptly collapsed during a dispute between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The ministry reported that four\u00a0Yemenia\u00a0Airways planes carried 609 foreign nationals to Jeddah, concluding an operation that began when the UAE withdrew its forces from Yemen under a Saudi deadline.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The breakdown of air service left several hundred&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/headlines\/italy-begins-evacuating-over-100-stranded-tourists-from-yemens-socotra-island\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen\u2019s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the evacuation of all tourists trapped on Socotra&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,1224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yemen","category-1224"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}