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| Airstrikes as Yemen troops, Al Qaeda clash |
| 2016-04-24 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemeni forces loyal to the internationally recognized government killed 25 al-Qaeda snuffies in heavy festivities Saturday in southern Yemen, a provincial official said, following an Ground troops were advancing in Saturday’s festivities in the town of Koud in the southern province of Abyan ...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... , said al-Khedr al-Seidy, the province’s governor. Elsewhere, a jacket wallah detonated a boom-mobile southwest of the Abyan scenic provincial capital of Zinjibar to stall advances by the military in the province. The kaboom led to an unknown number of casualties among the army forces. Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, viewed by Washington as the group’s most dangerous offshoot, has exploited the conflict between Iranian catspaws and government forces to expand its footprint. A Saudi-led, US-backed coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally recognized government is battling Iranian catspaws known as Houthis and their allies. The Houthis have held Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, since September 2014, and their advance across the Arab world’s poorest country brought the Saudi-led coalition into the war in March 2015. In the central city of Taiz, five non-combatants were killed and seven others injured when a land-mine went kaboom!as a bus was passing by on a side street west of the city. Taiz has been besieged for months by Houthis who have been indiscriminately shelling the war-devastated city and blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid, according to residents and aid groups. Clashes also continued Saturday in the provinces of Marib and Jouf, while the Saudi-led coalition launched |
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