Press Release
Amid the Intense International Conflict over Yemen
Do Its People Realize Their True Role That Has Been Absent for Many Long Decades?!
(Translated)

The Presidential Council, headed by Rashad Al-Alimi, on Wednesday, 07/01/2026, from Riyadh, directed a number of charges against one of its members, Aidarus Qassem Al-Zubaidi, including high treason, undermining and violating the constitution, assaulting it, and leading an armed gang to commit crimes of killing, and referred him to the Public Prosecutor. The Council also issued a number of ministerial and security changes. Riyadh had announced on Tuesday, 06/01/2026, that Al-Zubaidi had “fled to an unknown location,” and Al Jazeera Channel reported another statement on 08/01/2026 stating: “The official spokesperson of the Coalition Forces, Major General Turki Al-Maliki, announced that, following the statement of the Coalition Forces Command yesterday which included information about the circumstances of the escape of the President of the Southern Transitional Council, Aidarus Al-Zubaidi, to an unknown destination, intelligence information became available that he fled at night with others via sea from the port of Aden towards the Somaliland region in the Federal Republic of Somalia.”

Its aircraft then carried out seven airstrikes on Al-Zand camp in the village of Zubaid in Al-Dhale Governorate, the birthplace of Aidarus Al-Zubaidi.

This came after Al-Zubaidi refused to respond to Riyadh’s invitation and the 48-hour deadline it set for him to attend a conference planned to be held soon, following the military developments he led since his forces entered Hadramout Governorate on 26/11/2025 and his announcement of control over it and over the neighboring Al-Mahrah Governorate, until his withdrawal from both at the beginning of the new year 2026.

Al-Zubaidi, like the rest of the members of the Presidential Council, had been a pawn of Britain, which is adept at playing chess on the Yemeni board, adorning matters for him and pushing him to line up on its side in fighting Islam and scheming against its people. He appeared at the head of the Southern Transitional Council, backed by Abu Dhabi, which Mohammed bin Zayed seeks to cloak in shame. With the intensification of the American conflict through Al Saud and the British conflict through the Emirates, and due to the movements carried out by the Transitional Council, Riyadh exerted all its influence on the eight-member council loyal to Britain to call upon it to intervene, and it did so. Al-Zubaidi thus became pursued by the Al Saud regime, but Abu Dhabi did not abandon him; rather, it secured his exit to it in order to preserve him and use him when needed. The battle will not stop, and Britain will use Al-Alimi and his council to appease the Al Saud regime while simultaneously setting traps for them. Thus, the bleeding of blood and hunger in Yemen continues.

Salman and his two sons, his Crown Prince Mohammed and his Minister of Defense Khalid, are playing the role of the compassionate mother for Yemen, while it is they who carry the lethal poison to open southern Yemen to their “mistress” America. Their kingdom has never been on the side of Islamic brotherhood. Its founder, Abdulaziz, joined forces alongside Sharif Hussein and others in an alliance that fought the Khilafah State (Caliphate) during the First World War, and under the leadership of the kafir (disbelieving) West, especially Britain and France, they succeeded in destroying it.

The contenders are capitalists: America through the Kingdom of Al Saud, and Britain through the UAE. They agree in principle, unite in waging war against Islam and its people, and differ over material interests, which have become evident in the oil of Hadramout and its surroundings. Do the politicians standing on the two sides of the colonial conflict, separating religion from politics and not viewing the world from the perspective of the Islamic creed, not realize the deadly pitfalls of pragmatic politics?!

We call upon the rational people of faith and wisdom from its north to its south: stand a stance that pleases your Lord, cut off the hand of the disbelieving West and its agents from Al Saud, Al Nahyan, and the rulers of Iran, and support the truth. Support those working to establish a state for the Muslims that rules by the law of Allah. O our people in Yemen, your cause is to return to your true role of carrying Islam under the shade of the Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly Guided Caliphate) State. Allah Almighty says:

[وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعاً وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنتُمْ أَعْدَاءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَاناً وَكُنتُمْ عَلَىٰ شَفَا حُفْرَةٍ مِّنَ النَّارِ فَأَنقَذَكُم مِّنْهَا كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ]

“And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided. And remember the favor of Allah upon you—when you were enemies and He brought your hearts together and you became, by His favor, brothers. And you were on the edge of a pit of the Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you may be guided.” [Surah Aal-i Imran:103]. And He Almighty says:

[وَأَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلَا تَنَازَعُوا فَتَفْشَلُوا وَتَذْهَبَ رِيحُكُمْ وَاصْبِرُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الصَّابِرِينَ]

“And obey Allah and His Messenger, and do not dispute and [thus] lose courage and [then] your strength would depart; and be patient. Indeed, Allah is with the patient.” [Surah Al-Anfal:46].

Do not be tools of destruction in the hands of those who fight Islam and the Muslims and strive relentlessly to tear them apart in the worst possible way, until their power is gone!

Or will you stand watching the war waged by capitalist civilization against Islamic civilization in order to uproot it?! How could that ever succeed, when Allah (swt) says:

[يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى اللَّهُ إِلَّا أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ]

“They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah refuses except to perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it.” [Surah At-Tawbah:32].

And among the Muslims are those who are aware of their plots and awaken the people of Islam so that they may rise to support it and establish its state—the second Khilafah Rashidah upon the method of the Prophethood. Hizb ut Tahrir is among you and with you.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Yemen