Yemen: Al-Qaeda targets a military base in southern Yemen
A day after President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi announced a change in ministerial position, in a bid to address Yemen’s deteriorating security crisis and instigate a change in policy at the oil ministry, the country’s founding economic block; military officials confirmed that al-Qaeda had yet again targeted a military base in the southern province of Abyan, in Lawder.
It is important to note that Abyan was turned in 2012 into an al-Qaeda hub after the terror group managed to exploit Yemen’s power vacuum by establishing several strongholds at the heart of the region. Strong in its positions al-Qaeda proclaimed the cities of Zinjibar and Jaar, Islamic Caliphates.
While of course President Hadi successfully drove out all militants from the region through an intense and well-coordinated military operation, security experts were shaken by the sheer magnitude of al-Qaeda’s military abilities and the boldness of its true intention: creating an Islamic terror state at the heart of the Arabian Peninsula.