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5 al-Qaeda operatives die in drone attack in Marib
ADEN: A drone strike on Sunday killed five suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the Yemeni province of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, security officials said.One official said a US drone had probably carried out the strike, which targeted a car in the province’s Saoud district. The US considers the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to be the radical group’s most dangerous branch. AQAP has flourished in the chaos of the country’s civil war. A long-running drone war against AQAP has intensified since US President Donald Trump took office in January. An air raid he ordered that month killed a US Navy SEAL and several Yemeni civilians in Baida province, just south of Marib. Posted by: badanov 2017-10-09 |
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