SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)-
One of the biggest existential threats to the Middle East and beyond is Daesh. The Gulf Cooperation Council and Western powers cannot afford to be complacent, as the dreaded terror organisation regroups and takes control of new areas while regional military efforts are focused on Yemen. IS branch in Yemen took control of a major airport and an oil export terminal in the southern part of the country on Thursday, expanding the resurgent militant group’s reach just two weeks after it seized the nearby city of Al Mukalla and emptied its bank and prison. Apart from IS is Alqaeda is also capitalizing on the expanding multisided war in Yemen and the collapse of its government to carve out territory for itself. When its fighters stormed Al Mukalla, the capital of Hadhramaut Province, they seized government buildings, looted the central bank office and freed hundreds of inmates from the city penitentiary, including a senior leader of the group. The Saudi assaults on the Houthis have indirectly helped empower Al Qaeda and IS in ways the group had not enjoyed before. Their fighters are now developing relations with Yemeni tribal leaders who share antipathy for the Houthis and their allies, said Jamal Benomar, the United Nations diplomat who had unsuccessfully sought to achieve a political reconciliation in Yemen.
At the end of Yemen war IS would become so powerful that its next destination after having marched down from Syria into Iraq, is Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Thus Saudia is indirectly strengthening IS that will soon be a greater problem for the oil rich state. Indirectly the advantage of Yemen war is going to IS that is bigger threat to Saudia that Houthis are just fighting in Yemen and have no intentions to cross the border unlike IS.
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