To insurgent groups, the loss of territory is a setback, but is only one episode in what they intend to be a very long war. The reason for this rests in the very nature of insurgent warfare. However, the loss of this territory will not mean an end to the group, just as losses of territory by militants in Somalia and Syria do not mean those insurgent groups have been defeated definitively. Losing these cities will immediately and significantly affect AQAP's ability to reach its goal of establishing an emirate based on Sharia law in southern Yemen. intelligence and fire support, have been able to push back AQAP and Ansar al-Sharia in recent weeks.
As a result, a combination of Yemeni soldiers and local tribesmen, backed by U.S. But in February, the election of new Yemeni President Abd Rabboh Mansour Hadi allowed the rift created by the infighting to be slowly healed. AQAP was able to capitalize on the infighting that began in Yemen in 2011 and successfully diverted the government's focus away from AQAP and other militant groups. The organization controlled the area it seized from the government through its Ansar al-Sharia front organization. Meanwhile in Yemen, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been forced to retreat from towns it took control of last year in southern Abyan province, including Jaar, Shaqra and Zinjibar.
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