Born: 01 January 1983;

Place of Birth: Albaidah, Yemen;

Citizen: Yemen;

Passport: 04796738 (Yemen).

Activities:

As of 2014, al-Qaysi routinely encouraged Yemeni tribesmen to avoid confrontation with AQAP.

Since 2015, al-Qaysi served as an AQAP facilitator who had provided financial support to AQAP to help it take control of parts of Yemen.

At that time, al-Qaysi raised money and transferred it and other forms of aid to AQAP. His benefactors included parties outside Yemen.

That same year, he was involved in planning AQAP’s militant operations in Yemen and financed AQAP training camps.

As of 2015, he also distributed money and weapons to AQAP and allied Yemeni tribal forces for fighting the Yemeni Houthi rebel group.

As of 2016, al-Qaysi was a senior AQAP official and a financial supporter of AQAP. At that time, he obtained some money for AQAP from parties outside Yemen.

He delivered aid to AQAP and used his position as an al-Bayda Governorate, Yemen, political leader to facilitate the expansion and settlement of AQAP in the governorate.

That same year, al-Qaysi also facilitated the transfer of money and weapons to AQAP fighters and was involved in supplying AQAP forces in al-Bayda.