On April 20, 2018, Al-Malahem, the media arm of Al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released Part Nine of its video series "Repulsion Of Aggression," which featured Sudanese national and former Gitmo detainee Ibrahim Al-Qusi and accused the government of the UAE of being a "puppet" of the U.S. and leading the war against Islam.
In the video, AQAP also documents the training, planning, and execution of a series of operations targeting security forces, checkpoints, and military bases in multiple locations using different tactics including martyrdom operations, commando raids, shelling, shootings, and assassinations. In the planning of one operation, an AQAP commander used a tablet computer and Google Maps.
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