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Large explosion rocks occupied Yemeni city of Lawdar
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province, southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , which is under the control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia since early September, local sources said on Friday. According to the sources, the blast took place at the entrance to the city of Lawdar, and it was heard across residential neighborhoods. Plumes of smoke were seen rising from the scene, the sources said., adding that the cause of the earth-shattering kaboom was unknown. No material and human casualties have been reported so far. Residents expected that the earth-shattering kaboom to be a result of an attack on a checkpoint belonging to the "Security Belt forces ", which took control of the city during the first weeks of September. The UAE-backed militia has been launching a campaign to uproot the Islah military brigades in Abyan and pursue so-called "terrorist elements in the mountainous areas of the Mudiyah district, where the STC militia has suffered heavy losses due to improvised bombs planted in the district. Posted by: Fred 2022-09-24 |
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