[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A big shot in the UAE-funded armed factions was killed on Thursday, while seven of his bodyguards were maimed in Abyan...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an
Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province, southern Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
"The Staff of the 3rd Battalion in the 3rd Support Brigade, Jaber al-Fahha al-Yafe’i, was targeted in a kaboom that targeted his military vehicle with an bomb in al-Jaza area of Mudiya district," informed sources said.
The bombs killed dozens of leaders and recruits of the factions affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in the districts of Mudiya and Ahwar of Abyan, following the announcement of the so-called "Arms of East" operation by the STC to combat terrorist elements in the districts of Abyan in August of last year.
The confrontations gained a regional dimension after the STC brought in a number of military brigades from Dhalea and Yafaa in restive Lahj
... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement
to various districts of Abyan due to the raids on the homes of the tribes in a number of areas under the pretext of harbouring terrorist elements.