The Long War Journal reports that the Arab press has a story about an Al-Qaeda camp that just opened in Al-Jaza in the district of Mudiyah in the province of Abyan, containing 400 militants. They report that a second camp opened in Abyan Province in the spring.
Iran is supporting Al-Qaeda elements involved in fighting the Yemeni government as well as the Shiite Houthi rebels.
Yemen apparently is supporting these same Al-Qaeda elements in order to use them to fight the Houthi rebels.
No one ever said Middle Eastern geopolitics wasn’t complicated.
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