Aydarus al-Zubaydi

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Aydarus Qassem Abdulaziz al-Zubaydi (born 1967) is a Yemeni politician who has served as the president of the Southern Transitional Council since 2017. He previously served as the vice president of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) from 2022 to 2026 and as the governor of Aden Governorate from 2015 to 2017. Born in Zubayd, South Yemen, al-Zubaydi served in the South Yemeni Air Force as a second lieutenant from 1988 until 1989. After the unification of Yemen in 1990, he was transferred to Central Security Organization of the Ministry of Interior. Following the outbreak of the Yemeni civil war of 1994, al-Zubaydi fought alongside the breakaway Democratic Republic of Yemen against the northerners. Upon defeat, he fled to Djibouti in 1994, only to return to Yemen in 1996 and lead the Hatham Movement, an insurgent group advocating for South Yemeni separatism. In 2014, al-Zubaydi announced the establishment of Southern Resistance. He aligned himself with the internationally-recognized...

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