Dozens of Al-Qaeda members deploy in Abyan

ABYAN, May 11 (YPA) – Dozens of Al-Qaeda members have deployed during the past two days in the city of Lawdar of Abyan province, south of Yemen, amid the complete absence of the UAE-funded armed factions.

Activists from the southern provides confirmed on social media that terrorist elements announced their return to city, which is controlled by forces loyal to the UAE, under the name of “Flood of Zara.”

They explained that the organization’s members distributed posters and raised banners on the walls of houses and the main streets in the city without moving by forces of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), to foil the organization’s posters.

Observers believe that the Saudi-led coalition has begun arranging the ranks of Al-Qaeda members in the Abyan districts adjacent to Sanaa forces-held Bayda province, in conjunction with the military escalation of the coalition on various fronts after America and Britain failed to secure Israeli ships in the two Red and Arab Seas.

They confirmed that the American trends may seek to gather Al-Qaeda elements in Lawdar and open training and arming camps in a number of districts adjacent to Bayda, in coordination with the UAE-funded forces of the STC and Tariq Afash, the nephew of the farmer president Ali Abdullah Saleh, to open new fronts against the Sanaa forces.

The movement of Al-Qaeda in Abyan and Shabwa comes after the Sanaa forces announced the launch of the fourth phase of the military escalation against the Zionist enemy in the Mediterranean in response to the US-backed Zionist massacres in the Gaza Strip.

The organization launched the name “Zara Flood” in reference to the Zara area, located west of the city of Lawdar, which played political and military roles as the capital of what was called the “Awdhaliya Sultanate” and the seat of the “Dathina government” during the British occupation on Yemen south.

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