#Socotra island

SOCOTRA, May 14 (YPA) - A new batch of Emirati surveillance and eavesdropping devices has arrived on the UAE forces-held Socotra island of Yemen. Sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday that the devices equipped with modern…

SOCOTRA, March 20 (YPA) - A number of Emirati commercial companies have looted dozens of rare trees and marine life on the occupied island of Socotra of Yemen. Environmental specialists on the island said on Monday that the so-called…

ADEN, Feb. 27 (YPA) - Saudi Arabia implemented on Monday new arrangements to reduce the influence of UAE in the archipelago of the Yemeni island of Socotra. This came in the framework of the escalation of the “Saudi-Emirati” conflict…

SOCOTRA, Feb. 21 (YPA) - The UAE forces have launched a new displacement operation against the people of Abd al-Kuri Island, 133 km away, in the occupied Yemeni province of Socotra Archipelago. Local sources said, "The UAE is carrying out…

SANAA, Feb. 02 (YPA) - In the past few days, new fears have been raised of an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe that would hit the Yemeni province of Socotra, as a result of an oil spill from a ship belonging to the merchant and…

SANAA, Nov. 21 (YPA) - President of the Supreme Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, called on the people of the Socotra province to preserve the social fabric, work to thwart the plans of the aggression coalition that loots the wealth and…

SOCOTRA, Nov. 19 (YPA) - The UAE has sent Chinese experts to the occupied Yemeni island of Socotra, on a visit described as “unknown”, local sources reported on Friday. The sources stated that six people of Chinese nationality arrived…

SOCOTRA, Nov. 16 (YPA) - About 25 Yemeni girls returned on Wednesday to the occupied Yemeni island of Socotra after being trained in UAE to complete a security and intelligence course. Sources familiar with the island stated that the girls…

SOCOTRA, Feb. 07 (YPA) - "UAE-run Socotra Island is witnessing military tensions among the armed groups in the province," according to local sources familiar with the matter on Monday. The sources on the island stated that the leadership of…

SOCORTA, Feb. 04 (YPA) - UAE has established a new camp in the city of Hadibo, the capital of the Socotra archipelago. According to media outlets, the UAE equipped the camp with all military equipment and mechanisms in the city, after…