Unidentified gunmen shot dead a colonel in Yemen’s southern resistance in Aden on Tuesday night, a local official said, the latest in a string of assassinations in the city often carried out by militants. The gunmen opened fire on a car containing resistance leader Jalal Al Awbali in the Dar Saad district of northern Aden, killing him immediately, the official said.Militants from both Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Yemeni wing of the Baghdadi militia
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The rate of attacks in Aden has accelerated since July, when local forces backed by the government of President Abd Rabuh Mansour Hadi and a military alliance recaptured the city from the Houthi militia after months of street fighting.
Insecurity in Aden, the biggest prize yet won by Hadi in Yemen’s nine-month civil war, threatens to undermine the campaign waged on his behalf against the Houthis and army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.