Saudi-backed forces deployed in Hadramout

HADRAMOUT, Feb. 20 (YPA) – Saudi-backed forces have deployed on Monday in Al-Ebr district near al-Wadia’h outlet in Hadramout province, eastern Yemen, local sources told Yemen Press Agency.

According to the sources, Saudi Arabia has deployed the “Homeland Shield Forces”, which it created from radical Salafist groups and elements of al-Qaeda, and has begun to station them at military sites in Al-Ebr area, within the range of al-Wadia’h border crossing.

The sources confirmed that Saudi Arabia is actually moving to block the movements of the “Southern Transitional” militia of the UAE in Hadramout Valley, indicating that Saudi Arabia is in the process of deploying new forces in the camps of the “first military zone”, affiliated to Islah in the city of Sayoun, the center of the Valley and desert directorates.

This comes after Saudi Arabia pushed the head of Hadramaut tribal alliance, Amr bin Habrish Al-Aliai, in early January, to call for the recruitment of ten thousand tribal fighters to confront the “Transitional” in the Valley districts, and they were absorbed into the so-called “Homeland Shield”.