A New Military Formation in Yemen Funded by Saudi Arabia to Rival UAE-Affiliated Formations
News:
The formation of new military forces with Saudi funding and support in the Shabwa Governorate, southeast of Yemen. (Arabi 21, July 3, 2025).
Comment:
Saudi Arabia previously established a military formation in southern Yemen called the Homeland Shield, and deployed those forces in and around Aden (Tor Al-Bahah) and in Hadramout to compete with the Security Belt established by the UAE in Aden, and to compete with the Hadrami Elite Forces established by the UAE in Hadramout. Today, a new military formation is announced with Saudi funding and support in southern Yemen, specifically in the Shabwa Governorate, to expel the Shabwani Elite Forces affiliated with the UAE from there!
Instead of Saudi Arabia organizing military formations to save the people of Gaza from the killing machine that the Jewish entity is using to reap the lives of our people there, or moving its army to support them, it is recruiting the sons of Yemen to fight each other, exploiting the severe poverty widespread in the country and the unemployment experienced by young people, and all of this is not for the sake of Yemen or even for its own interests, but to secure America's interests in Yemen, and to remove Britain's influence imposed by the UAE in southern Yemen. Thus, the sons of southern Yemen find themselves in a war between them, serving Western projects with Muslim money. It has become clear that these forces do not defend a country, a religion, or even a noble cause, but are soldiers enslaved to the Emirati dirham and the Saudi riyal, oblivious to their real enemy and their fateful issues. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Cursed is the slave of the dinar, cursed is the slave of the dirham, cursed is the slave of the velvet garment."
These military forces are being formed under the eyes of the authorities in the country, who do not move a finger or deny wrongdoing, but participate in conspiring against the people by aligning themselves with their enemies. It has become clear today that the Saudi regime serves the interests of Trump's America openly, and that regime constitutes the dagger that America uses to stab the nation, tear countries apart, and move towards America's project, which is to make the Jewish entity safe and secure in the midst of the Islamic nation, as the UAE did before.
O our people in Yemen: You must denounce these military formations that will shed the blood of your sons, as they have been formed to implement the Saudi-Emirati competition in southern Yemen, and have nothing to do with the war against the Houthis or the defense of the already fragmented Yemen.
O Muslim youth: Poverty is not an excuse before God for disobeying Him, for fighting under blind, ignorant projects is one of the greatest sins, so how if that fighting is in implementation of the international competition for influence and wealth in the country?!
The Muslim's issue in life is to implement God's law, protect the Islamic state, defend it, and carry Islam through da'wah and jihad to the world. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, warned against engaging in any kind of forbidden fighting: "Whoever fights so that the word of God may be supreme is in the cause of God." As for anything else, it is in the cause of the Taghut. God Almighty said: ﴿And whoever disbelieves in Taghut and believes in God has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that will never break.﴾
Written for the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Abdul Aziz Al-Hamid – Yemen Province