In Photos: Islah militias expels Abu Abbas brigades from Taiz

TAIZ, April 27 (YPA) – The Al-Islah Party militias were able to force the Abu Abbas brigades out of the old city of Taiz after five days of violent confrontations on its second tour.

The departure of the Abu Abbas Brigades, led by Colonel Adel Fara is funded by The United Arab Emirate, from the old city of Taiz, hours after he appealed to Saudi-led coalition leadership to intervene to  “stop the brutal war” in the Old City.

 

The leader of the Abu Abbas Brigades, on Friday, sent a letter appealing to the leadership of the Saudi-led coalition, with direct American and British support, and to the exiled  Hadi’s government to “intervene urgently to stop the war.”

 

The so-called “popular crowd” militias of the Saudi-backed Al-Islah party, (Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen), launched a relentless war on several neighborhoods of the old city of Taiz, where the Abu Abbas brigades are stationed.

 

The second edition of the War, which started earlier this week, left some 100 people dead and wounded, most of them civilians, as a result of the heavy artillery and rocket bombardment on the Old City.

 

 

The departure of the Abu Abbas Brigades, which is the second consecutive, after violent armed clashes in the city at the beginning of the year, ended with the withdrawal of the forces of the Abu al-Abbas brigades to al-Muzaffar district, south part of Taiz.

 

 

The Al-Islah leadership, which controls the security and military forces in the city of Taiz, justified the war on the pretext of “carrying out a security campaign to apprehend the outlaws and wanted men”, which is against the coalition-backed governor’s decision.

 

Governor Nabil Shaman was appointed by the exiled Hadi, has ordered to stop carrying out a security campaign, which he had launched in mid-March, after the Islah party militias took advantage of the campaign to element the Abu Abbas Brigades.

Despite Governor Shaman’s order to stop the campaign, Islah’s security and military leaders continued to carry out their first round of clashes, in which 90 people dead and wounded as well as looting of private and public properties.

This event forced the exiled Hadi’s governor to leave Taiz City, to its suburbs and then to Aden, pending a spiral “until the dismissal of the rebel security and military leaders of Islah party”, which was addressed by the Brotherhood’s authority in coalition-backed government.

The “Islah” security and military leaders formed armed militias under the name of the “popular crowd” in preparation for a resolution of the battle of influence within the city of Taiz, in favor of extending the Muslim Brotherhood’s full control over the city’s neighborhoods.

Islah’s Security and military leaders in Taiz renewed the campaign (waging war) by holding a meeting of the so-called High-Security committee in the province without the governor’s presidency, in a mutiny that began openly on Hadi.

By defeating the Abu al-Abbas brigades “from the city of Taiz, the Muslim Brotherhood Authority (Islah) has extended its influence to the entire city of Taiz, which it has maintained with the support of the Alliance, except for the revival of the Old City.

The question remains: Will the series of assassinations and rapes, the crimes of the numerator on real estate and public and private property, looting of citizens’ belongings, abductions and arrests outside the law end in Taiz?!  Or will the coming days see more repressive and criminal practices that the city has suffered under the rule of the Islah party?!.

E.M