...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, a security official said.
The US military is the only force known to operate armed drones over Yemen.
The official said the strike happened after sundown and targeted a vehicle in Bayda province.
"An unmanned drone ‐ likely American ‐ bombed the group’s vehicle in the area of Qayfa, where Al Qaeda is active," the official said.
Al Qaeda’s global network remains "remarkably resilient", posing more of a threat in some regions than the bad boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group, UN sanctions monitors said in a report last week.
The report sent to the Security Council said that the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
(AQAP) served as a communications hub for the UN-designated terror group as a whole.
A long-running American drone war against AQAP has intensified since US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
took office in January last year.