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| Ten Yemeni soldiers killed in Lahij suicide attack |
| 2016-08-09 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A jacket wallah rammed his vehicle into a large group of army reinforcements in south 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Sunday, killing at least 10 soldiers, an Al Arabiya News Channel correspondent reported. Another seven soldiers were maimed in the attack targeting troops who had been sent from the main southern city of Aden to Lahij province to fight krazed killers, the sources said. A military official said it was unclear whether the attack had been carried out by al-Qaeda or ISIS, both of which have gained ground in the south and claimed deadly anti-government assaults in the past. Late on Saturday, coalition jets attacked Al-Qaeda positions in 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... 's picturesque provincial capital of Zinjibar and in the nearby town of Jaar, military sources said. Government forces backed by the Arab coalition began an all-out offensive in March against jihadists in south Yemen, recapturing main cities they had held. |
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