UAE seeks to overthrow pro-coalition Islah Party authorities in Shabwa

SHABWA, Oct. 24 (YPA) – American forces, reinforced with many military vehicles and weapons, arrived Saturday, October 23, at the headquarters of the Coastal Defense Brigade in “Qarat Al-Faras” area, located between Hadramout and Shabwa province, eastern Yemen.

This comes after Saudi Arabia transferred one of the brigades led by Adel Al-Masabi, who had sacrificed hundreds of people from the southern provinces in defending Saudi lands on the front beyond the border, according to local sources.

The sources stated that the coalition established a training camp for the “Shabwa Elite” militia, including mercenaries from foreign countries in the Qarat Al-Faras, with direct support from the UAE and Saudi Arabia, under the pretext of expelling Islah from the province, especially after the army and the popular committees liberated a number of the province districts.

The upcoming military operation would target the Islah authorities in the city of Ataq, the capital of Shabwa, before the three-month Saudi mediation deadline for the Emirati forces to leave Balhaf gas facility in the coastal Radhum district ends, the sources said.

The UAE, in coordination with Saudi Arabia, is seeking to replace the Islah forces that it established over the past years, and they have become a threat to the UAE presence and its interests, not in Shabwa, but also in the coasts of Abyan province and the Gulf of Aden, especially after the opening of the “Qena” port of Islah in Shabwa, the sources added.

YPA