The operation to liberate Al-Dhalea Governorate on May 25, 2015, which this year marks its eighth anniversary, is of great importance as it broke the stubbornness of the terrorist Houthi militia, and represented the first victory of the people of the south and its forces over the Yemeni occupation and terrorism projects, and it also changed the course of the war against Al-Houthi and his followers.

The battle to liberate the city of Al-Dhalea represented a victory for the right, and the solid will of the sons of the southern resistance, despite the scarcity of capabilities compared to the huge military equipment of the Houthi militia, which gave a strong impetus to all the southern fronts, especially the liberation of the capital, Aden, and then Lahj, Abyan, Shabwa, and the coast of Hadhramout, and the movement had prepared the ground until the southern resistance was formed in an incubating environment, and the incubating environment is the basis of any victory.

Al-Dhalea was liberated in a military operation carried out by the southern resistance, and the password for it was “Aden Hadhramaut”, and they are the two wings that the south flies under the leadership of President Commander Aidarous Al-Zubaidi in the prospects of a more organized and influential national liberation action in the southern cause to the table of regional and international decision-makers, with sufficient and worthy ability to resolve the final and comprehensive battle to liberate every inch of the soil of the south.

Constant Battle

First of all, Fadel Al-Jaadi, a member of the Transitional Council's Presidium, Deputy Secretary-General of the General Secretariat, confirms that the anniversary of May 25 will remain a day of great peoples, when the valiant southern resistance declared the liberation of Al-Dhalea and victory over the Houthi militia, that victory changed the war equation and was the key to victory in all confrontation fronts.

For his part, lawyer Yahya Ghaleb, a member of the Transitional Council's Presidium, tweeted saying: “The anniversary of the victory of Al-Dhalea on May 25, 2015, the first victory of the Battle of Decisive Storm. Its battle continues today, on the anniversary of the expulsion of the enemy hordes. Al-Dhalea forces are confronting the Houthi attack, breaking it as usual.

Stoping the Houthis

And the military expert, Brigadier General Khaled Al-Nasi, believes that  Al-Dhalea is the only one that stopped the Houthi advance from Saada to Aden, and its people came out before Decisive Storm with limited capabilities and stood in the face of the Yemeni military arsenal, breaking it and burying it in the soil, and after that they benefited from the support provided by the coalition countries, so they liberated their governorates in two months. As if the victory of Al-Dhalea is the beginning of the victory of the rest of the southern governorates.

Al-Nasi adds: "The people of Al-Dhalea are still steadfast on their land and are engaged in continuous battles with the enemy in their land despite the limited capabilities. The legendary steadfastness of the people of Al-Dhalea and alongside them the people of the south from Al-Mahra to Bab Al-Mandab is a message of reassurance that the south is greater than the ambitions of the Yemenis and will be a graveyard for them as long as the heroes are stationed on its border”

A Southern Epic, and a Defining Moment...

Dr. Saddam Abdullah, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Southern Media, head of the press and modern media sector, says, "On this day, the people of Al-Dhalea, with the solidarity of the people of the south, wrote heroic features and achieved victory over the Houthi militia despite their possession of various types of heavy weapons compared to the heroes of the resistance, but faith in God's will, determination and defending the right is the most powerful weapon."

Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Al-Naqeeb, the official spokesman for the Southern Armed Forces, indicates that this great memory comes with its achievements, and as a reminder to the enemy militias of the lessons they learned in Al-Dhalea and all the fronts of the south, through which I realized with certainty that the south is the cemetery of the invaders, adding: “Lessons are sufficient without the occurrence of the militias are in another suicidal adventure that is popular these days in its "media clowning".

As for a member of the Council of Advisors, a member of the Negotiations Affairs Unit in the Transitional Council, Ahmed al-Rubaizi, the steadfastness of al-Dhalea in the face of the local invaders in 2015, and its brave men’s repulsion of the invaders’ hordes since the beginning of the battle, was the most important event affecting the course of the battles waged by the southern resistance on all fronts in Aden, Lahj, Abyan and Shabwa, and the news of their steadfastness resonated widely in the regions of the south.

Al-Rubaizi remembers how the Aden fronts celebrated when we exchanged news of the victories in Al-Dhalea in May 2015, and there is no doubt that was a defining moment in the history of the southern resistance, and since that day the victories followed on all fronts.

In conclusion, it is worth saying that Al-Dhalea and all the fronts of the south have won more than once and are still standing up to the conspiracies hatched against them by the occupation forces, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, which until recently was betting in vain on bringing down the southern project to restore its state, by emptying the fronts of its fighters in dirty ways and means, at the top of which was cutting salaries Fuel and food, but the awareness and vigilance of the leadership and the southern people are always on the lookout.