Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), apparently not to be outdone in the wake of ISIS founding The Islamic State (TIS) and Jabhat al-Nusra declaring an emirate in Aleppo, has declared its own emirate in the eastern desert of Yemen.
AQAP had at one point been considered the largest and most dangerous of al-Qaeda’s subsidiaries, though it has mostly fallen out of the headlines in the midst of Iraq and Syria falling apart.
AQAP’s allies, a group called Ansar al-Sharia, but not the same one as in Libya, had briefly had an emirate of their own in the southern Abyan Province, but has lost that in a military offensive.
Eastern Yemen is the poorest part of one of the region’s poorest countries, and locals were given leaflets warning them to follow AQAP’s harsh interpretation of Shariah law.
The fighting in Yemen has always seemed to me to be driven by separatist and tribal issues, with the dread words al Qaeda only spoken to obtain outside support from its friends or its enemies. I suppose, though, that now the US has allowed itself to be sucked into the quagmire, there's no very good way for it to extract itself.
The caliphate system is more fashionable now a days where Islamic barbarism will rule. The idea is from the fashionable countries like Saudi Arabia and in general UAE, they have their own fashion shows planed yearly and is getting better since Barack Hussein Obama and us Democratic Party joined in.