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Arabia
Yemen govt. forces kill 13 militants in former Qaeda bastion near Mukalla
2016-05-23
[english.Alarabiya.Net] Yemeni government forces backed by Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
-led coalition aircraft killed 13 suspected murderous Moslems in two overnight raids near the former al-Qaeda stronghold of Mukalla, a security official said on Sunday.

Three soldiers also died in the raids on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts east of the port city of some 200,000 people that pro-government forces recaptured last month, the official said.

Nine troops were maimed in the assaults in the Rukob and Bowaish districts outside the Hadramawt province capital. Two murderous Moslems were captured.

Apache helicopters of the coalition that intervened in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in March last year took part in the raids.

Last month, Hadi loyalists backed by the UAE and Saudi Arabian special forces drove al-Qaeda out of Mukalla and the port city of Shihr further east, ending a year of jihadist rule.

But since then there has been a spate of attacks on security forces, many of them suicide kabooms, claimed by al-Qaeda or ISIS.

Despite its loss of Mukalla and the Indian Ocean coast, al-Qaeda retains a strong presence in the province and still controls several towns in the interior valley of Wadi Hadramawt.

Washington regards al-Qaeda’s Yemen-based branch as its most dangerous and has stepped up a longstanding drone war against it in recent weeks.

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