Clashes erupt between coalition rival militias in Aden

ADEN, July 28 (YPA) – Clashes broke out on Saturday between Saudi-led coalition rival militias in Yemen’s southern Port City of Aden, security source told Yemen Press Agency.

According to the sources, the clashes erupted at the Balqees checkpoint in Mansoura district, leaving one of the MSF doctors injured.

The sources said that the clashes took place between the militias of the security belt and elements belonging to the so-called First Giants Brigade, flowing the arrest of two prominent leaders in the giants, Abdul Rahman Raed Hilali and Nazim Fadl Awad.

The sources indicated that the UAE-backed security belt militias are beginning to worry about the presence of elements of the so-called Giants Brigades, (Salafist groups) that owe allegiance to Saudi Arabia.

The sources expressed concern that Aden could turn into a future conflict between Saudi Arabia and the UAE that would be more violent than all the previous conflicts and clashes between the militias of the security belt and Islah party.

The coalition leadership had turned Aden and the rest of Yemen’s southern provinces into conflict-filled arenas, and used the southern people as fuel for a war whose main goal was to occupy the south and loot its wealth.

Observer said that “the so-called Giants Brigades appear to have entered the line of security clashes in the occupied province of Aden, apparently in the context of a plan aimed at taking control of Aden and marginalizing the so-called Southern Transitional Council.

E.M