STC factions launch campaign of arrests in Abyan

ABYAN, Aug. 06 (YPA) – The factions of UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) launched on Sunday a campaign of large raids on large areas east of Abyan province.

Media sources affiliated with the council said that the factions of the so-called “Abyan axis” and ”security belt” stormed several villages of citizens in Maodiya district to pursue and track down what it called “terrorist elements” in the district a year after the launch of the “arrows of the East” operation in mid-August of last year 2022.

The sources explained that the armed campaign of the transitional factions will be the last and decisive battle against “al-Qaeda”, amid reports of the arrest of a number of pro-Islah residents on charges of harboring terrorist elements.