On 9th September 2015 an armed fundamentalist group, broke into the Ahmadiyya Mosque in the Sheikh Othman district of the seaport city of Aden in Yemen.

Eyewitnesses said that the hardliners closed the Ahmadiyya mosque after vandalizing the interior and burning the literature inside.

Local residents of Aden condemned the attack saying that these subversive and provocative acts carried out by the so-called (resistance) have nothing to do with the people of Aden, and these do not reflect the morals and values ​​of the people of Aden.

According to military sources and witnesses on the ground, alleged Al-Qaeda militants have now managed to take several key neighborhoods in and around Aden