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| Dozens of Al-Qaeda terrorists deployed to Shabwah province |
| 2022-05-22 |
| [HODHODYEMENNEWS] Military sources revealed on Wednesday that dozens of al-Qaeda members have arrived on the outskirts of Shabwah province, 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... , Yemen News Portal reported. This coincides with the escalation of the terrorist organization’s public movements in the province. The sources confirmed that more than 50 al-Qaeda members arrived in the past hours at the outskirts of the Usiylan District, near the eastern border of Ma’rib province. It is not yet known whether al-Qaeda’s deployment near the oil area of Shabwah is part of a plan to attack oil fields, or of a new scenario for an attack on forces of the National Salvation Government that are stationed south of Ma’rib. Al-Qaeda elements have recently been heavily deployed in areas which are under control of Saudi-led coalition’s factions in the southern provinces, like Shabwah, Hadhramaut and 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 Emirateafter 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... . They have in the past been used both against the forces of the National Salvation Government and against UAE-backed separatists in southern Yemen. Related: Shabwah province: 2022-05-15 Further infighting threatens to engulf occupied Shabwah province Shabwah province: 2022-04-20 Bomb attack by suspected Al-Qaeda operatives hits Abyan province Shabwah province: 2022-03-20 Explosion targets Southern Transitional Council rally in Yemeni city of Ataq |
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