🇾🇪 - Footage circulating online that purportedly shows PLC forces removing the Yemeni flag from territory captured from Ansarullah is being misrepresented.

The video originates from the al-Bayda' direction in southern Yemen and shows what appears to be a PLC-affiliated unit taking down the Yemeni flag. However, the personnel involved belong to the Giant Brigades, an elite ultra-conservative formation established by the former Southern Transitional Council, STC, with support from the UAE.

The Giant Brigades have historically adhered to Southern Arabian separatist ideals and, despite their current alignment with the PLC, continue to maintain a distinct political identity.

Following the collapse of the STC government and the subsequent STC-PLC clashes earlier this year, the Giant Brigades switched sides and began supporting the PLC.

The PLC itself does not reject the Yemeni flag or the concept of a unified Yemeni state. Rerum Novarum has uploaded a second video from a Giant Brigades-affiliated account showing fighters attaching the Southern Arabia flag to their technical before battle for context.

🇾🇪 - A very low-tier false news report by a channel affiliated with Iran's IRGC's propagation wing:

- Map 1: Rerum Novarum's map of the southwest Ta'izz direction.
- Map 2: An Arabic map of the same direction.
- Map 3: The IRGC's propaganda channel's map of the same direction.

The channel, using the Arabic map, claimed that Ansarullah forces have captured a key junction. The map incorrectly labels the junction "al-Mafraq," when in reality, al-Mafriq is located further west, just east of the Khalid bin Walid Military Camp. The rest of the locations seem correctly labelled on the Arabic map, as compared to Rerum Novarum's.

The junction in question that was captured is the Moazza'a Junction, which Rerum Novarum reported on three days ago. It was not captured today, or even recently.

The IRGC's propaganda channel, instead of matching the Arabic map with Google Map to assess the location from the terrain or roads, decides to publish the loss of al-Mafraq to the Ansarullah forces, a completely different location that doesn't even match the terrain of the Arabic map that posted just minutes prior.

The junction does however lie on a key Ta'izz - Mocha supply route, as previously stated by Rerum Novarum.

Rerum Novarum's map key:
- Red, Maozza'a Junction.
- Blue, al-Mafraq Junction.
- Yellow, Khalid bin Walid Military Camp.

Rerum Novarum has previously reported on the Khalid bin Walid Military Camp and its importance HERE.