Washington, on Wednesday, renewed its warning against traveling to, anticipating “terrorist attacks” in light of continuing internal unrest and increasing health risks.

The Office of Consular Affairs, in the US Department of State, spoke about new information warning American citizens and those holding dual citizenship with Yemen, as it indicates plans by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and ISIS to carry out attacks in Yemen.

The warning, which places Yemen in the fourth level of the classification, expects terrorist attacks “without warning” in the governorates of Al-Bayda, Abyan, and Shabwa, “during which public sites, transportation centers, markets, shopping centers, and local government facilities may be targeted.”

He pointed to the risks of being kidnapped by “terrorists, criminal elements, or non-state actors, and employees of foreign organizations may be targeted for attack or kidnapping.”

The warning comes simultaneously with an armed attack launched by members of the organization, at dawn today, Thursday, using artillery shells, on a military site belonging to military units from the First Brigade of the “Shabwa Defense” forces loyal to the Southern Transitional Council, in the Upper Egypt District, south of Shabwa Governorate. Which led to the death of two soldiers and the serious injury of a third, according to an official statement.

The researcher in the affairs of fundamentalist groups, Mohammed bin Faisal, described the American warning as “dangerous.”

He indicated that he had received information from a “senior source,” as he described it, about an expected escalation by the organization, and successive and powerful attacks in the governorates of Shabwa and Abyan, which are under the control of the legitimate government, in the south of the country.

Bin Faisal stated in a blog post on the “X” platform on Thursday that ISIS had also been “planning and arranging for two years and more to launch attacks against the Houthi militia in Al-Bayda Governorate, including what the organization carried out in July 2022, but The organization’s capabilities are weaker than the resumption of field activity at this time.”

For his part, journalist Salah Bin Laghbar said on the “X” platform that it is clear that “coordination between the two parties (i.e. Al-Qaeda and the Houthis) has reached an advanced stage, and the matter should be taken seriously.”

He pointed out that the mobilization of the Houthi militia on the southern border, the remarkable Al-Qaeda attack at dawn today, and the American warnings coincided with the Houthis intensifying their threats in various directions.

The past months have witnessed a remarkable rapprochement between Al-Qaeda in Yemen and the Houthi militia, after the latter supplied the organization with drones, before the relationship developed at the end of last June, from military supply to field intervention by the Houthis, against government forces and those loyal to them, With the aim of breaking the siege imposed on one of Al-Qaeda’s strategic military sites, west of Shabwa Governorate.