Twenty-one separatist fighters and six members of al-Qaeda’s 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...
branch were killed Tuesday, government and security sources said, as an attack by the gunnies punctured months of relative peace in the war-torn country.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
(AQAP) attacked positions held by the Security Belt group 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 Emirate after 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...
governorate in Yemen’s south, the sources said.
About three hours of fighting "left 21 dead among the (Security Belt), including an officer, and six among the al-Qaeda combatants," a government official said on condition of anonymity. Two security sources confirmed the corpse count.
Yemen has been gripped by conflict since Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
 ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels took control of the capital Sanaa in 2014.
AQAP and gunnies loyal to the ISIS group have thrived in the chaos.
Tuesday’s fighting comes as the Houthis and forces supporting the ousted government observe a shaky cease-fire in the years-long civil war.
Riven by divisions, the groups opposing the Houthis, who originate from the north, include southern separatists who support the re-establishment of South Yemen.
The country was divided into North and South Yemen until reunification in 1990.
Underlining Yemen’s parlous security, on Saturday AQAP released a video showing a United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
worker who was kidnapped more than six months ago, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
Five UN staff members were kidnapped in Abyan in February while returning to the port city of Aden after a field mission, UN spokesperson Eri Kaneko said at the time.
In Saturday’s video message, apparently recorded on August 9, Akam Sofyol Anam urges "the UN, the international community, the humanitarian organizations, to please come forward... and meet the demands of my captors," without outlining the demands.
Yemen’s UN-brokered cease-fire has drastically reduced fighting since the truce began in April, but outbreaks of violence continue.
Last week, 10 Yemeni soldiers were killed in a Houthi attack near Taiz, the country’s third biggest city which has been blockaded by the rebels since 2015.
The assault, which also left several soldiers maimed, was aimed at cutting off a key route to the southwestern city of about two million, the government said.
On Thursday, the Houthis held a military parade in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, drawing a rebuke from the UN. 
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