Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for attacks on STC in Abyan province

Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for attacks on STC in Abyan province

Al-Qaeda members documented on Saturday the targeting of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia in Abyan province, southern Yemen.

An account on Twitter called “al-Sunnah wal Jama’ah in Yemen” published pictures of the moment the barracks and military sites belonging to the STC militia were targeted with a number of mortar shells in al-Mahfad area last week.

The pictures showed the extent to which the organization’s elements controlled important sites that put the UAE-affiliated militia at the mercy of the terrorist elements’ fire.

The STC’s militia imposed its control over the districts of Abyan after announcing Operation Arrows of the East last August, under the pretext of fighting terrorist elements and chasing the Islah Party’s militants.

The people of Abyan accused Abdul Latif Al-Sayed and Abdul-Rahman Al-Shenini, of being both the leaders of the STC militia and members of the terrorist organization and of being behind these attacks, because the militia imposed its control over Abyan, under the pretext of fighting Al-Qaeda.

Dozens of leaders and members of the STC, most of whom were recruited by the Emirates from Dhalea, Yafa and Lahj, were killed by dozens of explosive devices planted by terrorist elements in districts of Mudiyah and Mahfad.