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In early December 2015, two Yemeni towns, Zinjibar (the provincial capital of Abyan Governorate) and Ja'ar (a town a few km inland to the north), were captured by the jihadist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).[1]

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  1. 21 relations: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Abdullatif Al-Sayed, Abyan conflict, Abyan Governorate, Aden, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Bab-el-Mandeb, Islamic State, Jaʽār, Jihadism, Popular Committees (Yemen), Popular Resistance Committees (Yemen), Robert F. Worth, Sharia, Southern Movement, The New York Times, Yemen, Yemeni civil war (2014–present), Yemeni revolution, Zinjibar.

  2. 2015 in Yemen
  3. Battles involving Yemen
  4. Battles of the Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
  5. December 2015 events in Yemen

Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi

Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (translit Yemeni pronunciation:; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces who served as the president of Yemen from 2012 until 2022, when he stepped down and transferred executive authority to the Presidential Leadership Council, with Rashad al-Alimi as its chairman.

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Abdullatif Al-Sayed

Abdullatif Al-Sayed Bafaqih (1972 – 10 August 2023) was a Southern Yemeni warlord from Abyan who played a major role during the wars against Al-Qaeda after 2012 in Abyan Governorate.

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Abyan conflict

The Abyan conflict was a series of clashes between forces of AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) loyal to Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and forces loyal to Southern Movement for the control of Abyan between 2016 and 2018. Fall of Zinjibar and Jaar and Abyan conflict are Battles involving Yemen.

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Abyan Governorate

Abyan (أَبْيَنْ) is a governorate of Yemen.

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Aden

Aden (Old South Arabian: 𐩲𐩵𐩬) is a port city located in Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, positioned near the eastern approach to the Red Sea.

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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (the Base in the Arabian Peninsula or تنظيمقاعدة الجهاد في جزيرة العرب, Tanẓīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab, "Organization of Jihad's Base in the Arabian Peninsula"), abbreviated as AQAP, also known as Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen (جماعة أنصار الشريعة, Jamā‘at Anṣār ash-Sharī‘ah, "Group of the Helpers of the Sharia"), is a Sunni Islamist insurgent extremist group, which is part of the al-Qaeda network and primarily active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

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Ali Abdullah Saleh

Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (Arabic:, ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar; 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession (an interview recorded in a YouTube video), he was born in 1947.--> – 4 December 2017) was a Yemeni politician who served as the first President of the Republic of Yemen, from Yemeni unification on 22 May 1990, to his resignation on 27 February 2012, following the Yemeni revolution.

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Bab-el-Mandeb

The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب), the Gate of Grief or the Gate of Tears, is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.

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Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.

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Jaʽār

Jaar (Arabic: جعار Jaʿār) is a small town and the capital of Khanfir District in southwestern Yemen.

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Jihadism

Jihadism is a neologism for militant Islamic movements that are perceived as existentially threatening to the West.

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The Popular committees, also known as the People's Committees, are armed groups formed by Yemeni tribes on behalf of more professional armed forces.

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The Popular Resistance (المقاومة الشعبية Al-Muqawamat ash-Sha'abiyah), also known as Popular Resistance Committees, are armed groups that have been established in several Yemeni provinces during the Yemeni Civil War, after the Houthi takeover in Yemen.

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Robert F. Worth

Robert Forsyth Worth (born September 29, 1965) is an American author and journalist.

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Sharia

Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.

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Southern Movement

The Southern Movement, sometimes known as the Southern Separatist Movement, or South Yemen Movement, or Aden Movement, and colloquially known as al-Hirak, is a political movement and paramilitary organization active in the south of Yemen since 2007, demanding secession from the Republic of Yemen and a return to the former independent state of South Yemen.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Yemen

Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.

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Yemeni civil war (2014–present)

The Yemeni civil war (al-ḥarb al-ʾahlīyah al-yamanīyah) is an ongoing multilateral civil war that began in late 2014 mainly between the Rashad al-Alimi-led Presidential Leadership Council and the Mahdi al-Mashat-led Supreme Political Council, along with their supporters and allies.

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Yemeni revolution

The Yemeni revolution (or Yemeni intifada) followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the 2011 Egyptian revolution and other Arab Spring protests in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Zinjibar

Zinjibar (زِنْجِبَار Zinjibār) is a port and coastal town in south-central Yemen, the capital of Zinjibar District and the Abyan Governorate.

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See also

2015 in Yemen

Battles involving Yemen

Battles of the Yemeni civil war (2014–present)

December 2015 events in Yemen

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Zinjibar_and_Jaar