Ansar Al-Sharia adopt operations in Lawdar and Taaz

Ansar Al-Sharia adopted the operation on Monday which targeted whom it described as ‘the mercenaries of the committees in Lawdar and the army of Sana’ regime’, which resulted in 11 deaths and many injured.

The group said in a press release that was distributed this morning, that ‘the initial reports indicate that the mujahidin used the strategy of intensive firing in the attack which was conducted with light and medium weapons’, and the statement added that ‘they indeed have controlled some of the locations of the army of Sana’a on the entrances of the city after the soldiers fled from it’.

Also Ansar Al-Sharia adopted in another press release the elimination of a colonel in the Political Security in Taaz. In the statement Ansar Al-Sharia clarified that ‘the mujahidin have intercepted the car of Ismail Ba’elwi at 5:00 pm before sunset with a motorcycle in the Siyra region south of Taaz then fired their machine guns at him which to his death’. They mentioned that he held the post of the director of the Political Security prison in Taaz and he is still working in the same security directorate and he also has a record of violations against Muslims.

Source: Marib Press