🇾🇪 - Southern Transitional Council (STC) protests were held across southern Yemen today, with demonstrators opposing involvement in the Yemeni civil war, which participants described as a "Saudi-Iranian conflict" rather than a southern cause.

Protesters urged former STC fighters–estimated at between 75,000 and 100,000 personnel–not to join military operations against Ansarullah, arguing that the conflict in northern Yemen is neither their responsibility nor their concern.

The former STC's military formations include some of Yemen's most capable and well-trained forces, including:
- Security Belt Forces,
- Hadhrami Elite Forces,
- Storm Brigades.

Since the end of the PLC-STC conflict earlier this year, several former STC-aligned formations have pledged support to the Presidential Leadership Council, including:
- Abyan Emergency Forces,
- Shabwah Emergency Forces,
- Quick Rapid Forces,
- Division 22,
- Giant Brigades,
- Tareq Saleh's Brigades (Presidential Guards),
- Tihamah Brigades.

Note, several former STC groups are already participating in military operations against Ansarullah, including the Giant Brigades and Tihamah Brigades.