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Yemeni army pushes Al Qaeda militants out of Mahfad
Sanaa -- Yemeni military officials said Al Qaeda militants staged an intense assault on a southern town and overran it for several hours before a counter-attack by the army pushed them out.The officials said Monday’s fighting over the town of Mahfad in Abyan province, a former Al Qaeda stronghold, lasted for eight hours. They said the militants took control of the town council building and several army checkpoints and moved in on a key army base. The clashes killed four Yemeni soldiers and seven Al Qaeda militants. Yemen’s Al Qaeda branch has taken advantage of a deep political crisis roiling the country amid a Houthi rebel power grab, which has plunged it close to full-blown civil war. Posted by: Steve White 2015-03-10 |
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