On May 22, 2023, a pro-Al-Qaeda Twitter user tweeted: "The arrows of betrayal in eastern Abyan and Shawabah [in Yemen] have awakened the sleeping giant and the good people have begun showing us, every day, a new surprise: Blessed attacks in Ahwar, and then powerful IEDs, and then snipers with infrared scopes, and a few days ago even drones."
May 23, 2023