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Arabia

UAE warplanes bomb Saudi-backed troops in southern Yemen after new advance

2019-08-30

[ALMASDARNEWS] The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) air force carried out a series of ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
<del>Arclight</del> airstrike

...KABOOM!...
s over southern 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...
on Thursday, targeting a number of sites belonging to the Saudi-backed Islah forces.

According to reports from southern Yemen, the UAE air force bombed the Islah forces in the port-city of Aden and several surrounding areas.

The UAE air force reportedly killed and maimed several members of the Islah forces during their aerial attack over the Aden District on Thursday.

This attack by the UAE air force comes just hours after the Southern Movement forces captured the town of Zanjabar in the Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
Governorate.

Tensions between the Saudi and UAE-backed forces are running high after the Islah Party captured Aden from the Southern Movement on Wednesday.

Posted by:Fred

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