Senior STC leader killed in Abyan front

ABYAN, Nov. 13 (YPA) – A senior military commander loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militias was killed Friday by gunmen from the Al-Islah party in Abyan province.

A local source confirmed that the commander of a company in the so-called “3rd Brigade” Salem Haitham Abdullah al-Shabahi, who is impersonating a colonel, was killed by the militants of al-Islah in the Sheikh Salem front, east of the provincial capital of Zinjibar.

The source said that al-Islah militants advanced militarily on the fronts of Sheikh Salem and Al-Taryah .

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