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Al-Qaeda gunmen attack STC in Shabwah province
 [HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Gunmen believed to belong to al-Qaeda have attacked a force affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Shabwah 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... Sources said that an gang shelled a checkpoint of the "Shabwa Defense Forces" in the area of al-Musaina’a of the al-Sa’eed district with an RPG shell, damaging a military vehicle. The same sources added that explosions shook the area after the attack as a result of the shelling of the Shabwa Defense Forces with mortars shells The new attack came three days after a similar attack claimed by al-Qaeda on a Shabwah defense force outpost left dead and maimed. Posted by: Fred 2023-06-15 |
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