Saudi Arabia recruits thousands of people from Yemen’s southern provinces

MARIB, May 23 (YPA) – Saudi Arabia has recruited thousands of people from the southern provinces of Yemen as an additional force within the so-called “Dera Al-Watan” forces, well-informed sources said on Monday.

The sources stated that Saudi Arabia is preparing three military brigades from the southern recruits and train them in Marib province, on the outskirts of Shabwa and Hadramout provinces in eastern Yemen.

This comes after Riyadh deployed the “Dera Al-Watan” forces at Al-Abr road in Hadramout and at Al-Wadiah border crossing between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, after the refusal of the Saudi commander of the “support brigade” of the Saudi-led coalition, Sultan al-Baqami, the deployment of the UAE-backed “Hadrami elite” at the crossing.

The oil-rich eastern provinces of Yemen have turned into a theater for Saudi-Emirati competition, serving the US-British presence in those regions.

YPA