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| 400 more Sudanese soldiers arrive in Yemen's Aden |
| 2015-11-10 |
| [AlAhram] A 400-strong Sudanese force arrived in Yemen's port city Aden Monday in support of pro-government forces preparing to confront a possible new offensive by rebels on the country's south. Yemen's loyalist forces, backed by Saudi-led coalition strikes, supplies and troops, pushed the rebels out of Aden as part of an operation launched in July to take back territory they had lost. Four other southern provinces -- 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 , Daleh, 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... and Shabwa -- were also retaken by the forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. But the Iran-backed rebels this weekend recaptured several positions in the south. "More than 400 Sudanese soldiers landed in Aden" as part of the coalition battling the rebels since March, said a commander of pro-Hadi forces. They will join 500 Sudanese soldiers who arrived in Aden on October 19. Some of them were deployed in the southern port and the strategic Al-Anad airbase in adjacent Lahj province, the source said. Their arrival comes as loyalist forces are mobilising to block a possible attempt by the rebels to re-enter Aden. "General mobilisation was been declared in Daleh" province where rebels recaptured second city Damt on Saturday, a local official said. A similar call was made in the coastal city of Dhubab, where the rebels achieved a "limited advance" during the weekend, a military source said. The rebels seized a military base in Dhubab on Saturday following deadly festivities with pro-government troops, according to military sources. Pro-government troops seized Dhubab early last month, giving them effective control of Bab al-Mandab, through which much of the world's maritime traffic passes. The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... says that around 5,000 people have been killed in Yemen's conflict since it escalated in March. Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... radical Islamist gunnies entered the faculty of administrative science at Aden university, forcing students to leave the campus and locked down the faculty's main gate, witnesses said. They said the gunnies closed the faculty weeks after they threatened to use force against students if they do not observe segregation of the sexes on campus. Gunmen last month distributed leaflets also banning music and signed by the Aden and Abyan branch of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. The threatened to carry out boom-mobile and petrol kabooms if mixing on campus continues. Islamist holy warriors, including Al-Qaeda and IS, appear to have gained ground in Aden where jihadists are now visibly present. |
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