Largest terrorist plot on Hadramout’s Abr border crossing foiled

Last updated Dec 19, 2025 10:25 PM

HADRAMOUT, Dec. 20 (YPA) – Pro-Saudi armed factions thwarted the largest terrorist plan believed to have been planned by elements of the Islah party to carry it out on the highway linking Marib and the al-Wadiyah border crossing in Hadramout.

Pro-Saudi-led coalition media sources reported that the so-called “military inspection and engineering teams” of the Saudi-funded Dera al-Watan factions or “Shield of the Homeland” carried out a qualitative operation that resulted in many explosive devices and mines were found out in a vital sector on the international road linking Marib, the border crossing of Abr and al-Wadiyah, without specifying the exact location.

The sources explained that the explosive devices were threatening the lives of civilians, travelers and others, stressing that the operation came within a comprehensive proactive security plan to secure the international road and vital supply lines for gas and fuel towards the southern and eastern provinces of Yemen.

This comes after the Saudi-funded armed factions have imposed their control over the camps affiliated to the Islah party on the Abr-Marib Road, since the beginning of this month, and secured the international line, amid threatening messages were launched against the Islah party that it would not allow turning the international road into an arena of chaos and extortion.

Al-Wadi district in Marib, which is under the control of Islah, one of Yemen’s main parties, has been hosting training camps for Al-Qaeda terrorist elements since they fled from Al-Bayda during the year 2020. Those terrorist groups have taken the Al-Samada area in the Al-of Wadi district as a center for their leadership, and a starting point for carrying out many terrorist operations in Modaya area in Abyan and Al-Masinah area in Shabwa.

It is likely that the pro-Islah elements distributed IEDs to ambush the UAE-funded Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s factions in case they headed towards the Abr-Marib Road, following their control over the camps and sites of the first military region of the reform in the directorates of Wadi Hadramout, as well as al-Ghaydah Axis in Mahra province, without any confrontations in early December.

The field developments, which were directed against the Islah party in the eastern provinces of Yemen, came as the culmination of a series of military strikes suffered by Islah, starting with the expulsion of its forces from Aden and handing them over to the STC forces in August 2019, and the subsequent horrific massacre committed by the UAE fighter jets against its gunmen at Al-Alam point east of Aden, killing about 300 people dead and injured.

After that, the Saudi forces “808” withdrew from the vicinity of the city of Hadibo, the center of Socotra province, and handed over the city to the pro-Emirati factions, ending with the escape of the pro-Islah governor “Ramzi Mahrous”, and soldiers loyal to the party in June 2020.

Despite this, Saudi Arabia not only directed those strikes at the Islah party through factions loyal to the UAE, but overthrew the pro-Islah governor of Shabwa, “Mohammed Saleh bin Adyo” after his arrival in Riyadh at the end of 2021, and the pro-UAE leader, “Awad al-Wazir” was appointed as governor of Shabwa, in which bloody confrontations broke out during August 2022 that led to the control of factions loyal to the UAE on the Islah-run Axis of Ataq, as well as to the Areen military camp, which was taken over during the current month, in conjunction with the control of the STC factions over the camps of the first region in Wadi Hadramout, according to an Emirati-Saudi agreement to end the last military presence of the reform in the southern and eastern provinces of Yemen.