Al-Qaeda has become stronger than before in Yemen, Analyst

The Yemeni political activist Jamal Al-Awadhi said to YemenOnline that al-Qaeda attacks increased in different Yemeni provinces than ever because of the expansion of the Shiite Houthis in the Sunni areas where number of Sunni tribes allied with al-Qaeda fight the Houthis which turning the war against al Qaeda into sectarian armed conflict.
Al-Qaeda has emerged in the provinces were not exist before, such as the province of Ibb, in which more than 35 people were killed in a suicide bombing last week also increased its attacks in Dhamar province and killed a number of people.
The most attacks of Al-Qaeda targeting Houthis in Al-Beidah province southeast of The Yemeni capital Sana’a where dozens of Shiite Hothis killed every day by Suicide attacks, Al-Awadhi said.
It is clear that with each expansion of the Houthis in the various regions of Yemen we find a larger exist of al-Qaeda operations against Houthis. Al-Awadhi added .
It seems that the US plan to fight al-Qaeda in its strongholds by assistance of the Houthis and Yemeni army came backfire, Al-Qaeda became stronger than ever, Al-Awadhi said .
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