Separatists Claim Broad Control of Southern Yemen
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Category: WARS & RUMORS OF WARS
Summary:
Yemen’s main southern separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council (STC), claimed broad control over southern Yemen, including the key port city of Aden, which has been the base of the Saudi-backed government. The STC stated that senior figures from other factions, including the head of the eight-member Presidential Leadership Council and the prime minister, had left Aden following a military operation called "Promising Future." The STC, backed in the past by the UAE, controls southern provinces and the strategic Perim Island, with Saudi-backed forces reportedly withdrawing. The head of the Presidential Leadership Council criticized the STC’s actions as undermining the internationally recognized government and violating power-sharing agreements.
Mysterion Insights
Scripture: James 3:16
"For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing."
Commentary:
The jockeying for power among Yemen's factions fits the pattern James describes: when motives are mixed with self-interest, chaos follows. People in these contested areas often bear the brunt first, sometimes going days unsure of who controls their streets. Long rivalries and shifting alliances like this reflect prophetic patterns where disputes over rule and allegiance lead to ongoing regional instability. While not on biblical covenant land, these power struggles remind us of how the Scriptures portray mounting disorder ahead of the end of the age.
Trend:
Power shifts and fractured alliances in the Middle East echo end-time patterns of intensifying regional disorder.
Tags: War, Yemen, Southern Transitional Council, Saudi-backed government, Attack, Military Escalation, Algemeiner
Source Excerpt:
Smoke billows following an Israeli air strike in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 10, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah Yemen’s main southern separatist group claimed broad control across the south of the country on Monday, including in the port city of Aden which has served as the base of the Saudi-backed, internationally recognized government for a decade. In an apparent major shift in power, the Southern Transitional Council said senior figures from other groups had left Aden, including the head of the eight-member body that acts in place of a president, and the prime minister. The STC, which has been backed in the past by the United Arab Emirates during Yemen‘s decade-old civil war, has clashed with other groups in the Saudi-backed government which relocated to Aden after the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, an internationally designated terrorist group, captured the capital Sanaa in 2014. Since 2022, the STC has served in an administration that controls southern areas outside the grip of the Houthis, under a Saudi-backed power-sharing initiative. OPERATION ‘PROMISING FUTURE’ Senior STC official Amr al-Bidh told Reuters on Monday that the group had extended its presence in all southern prov...
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Source: Algemeiner
Posted on 12-09-2025 01:04