
Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the leader of Yemen's southern separatists fled to an unknown destination on Wednesday.
The UAE pulled its forces out of Yemen under pressure from Saudi Arabia, which saw the southern advance on its borders as a threat to its national security.
On Wednesday, the Saudi coalition also said it carried out limited pre-emptive airstrikes in the southern province of al-Dhalea, Zubaidi's birthplace, after monitoring the movements of armed forces that had left their camps.