Southern Armed Forces Spokesperson: Terrorism will not defeat us no matter how persistent its forces are in using it

The official spokesman for the Southern Armed Forces, Captain Mohammad Al-Naqib, issued a statement on Aden Independent Channel (AIC), regarding targeting southern forces by terrorist elements.

Highlights of the statement

The leadership of the Southern Armed Forces had warned early on of the consequences of complicity in keeping Shabwa governorate and parts of Abyan under the control of militias operating in areas under the control of the so-called National Army.

The previous and recent actions inside and outside the country have proven that these parties cannot survive without using evil and tools of murder, terrorism and intimidation, which will not defeat our people no matter how hard these forces use

Our warnings were met with an unjustified silence from the relevant parties, and the result of this silence was the return of al-Qaeda and ISIS organizations to the governorates of Shabwa and Abyan and a torrent of blood of our proud southern people.

Today, our forces are facing one option, and that is to fulfill their national responsibility to protect our people, our land and our national gains

We call on the countries of the Arab coalition and the regional and international community to assume their responsibilities, about what extremist terrorist groups are committing against our southern people.

We call on the countries of the Arab coalition and the international coalition to combat terrorism to provide the necessary and direct support to complete the battle to eradicate terrorism.

We affirm that our forces will exercise their national duty and tasks in defending the people of the south and protecting their lands.

Finally, the Southern Armed Forces mourned the martyred of a the honorable heroes for the sake of Allah and the homeland, and at their forefront the martyr Commander Haidara Gibran Al-Jadani and the martyrs of the treacherous terrorist operations in Zinjibar