Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Sun 06/02/2024 View Sat 06/01/2024 View Fri 05/31/2024 View Thu 05/30/2024 View Wed 05/29/2024 View Tue 05/28/2024 View Mon 05/27/2024
2023-06-12 Arabia
AQAP launches attack against UAE-backed forces in Shabwah
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] 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) has lanuched an attack on the UAE-backed Forces in Shabwah province, southwest 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...
Local sources reported that button men belonging to al-Qaeda launched an attack on the Shabwa defense forces camp in the al-Musaina’a area of al-Sa’eed district, using RPGs and heavy machine guns.

The sources explained that al-Qaeda elements also used drones in their attack, and citizens heard violent mostly peaceful explosions resulting from dronezaps.

Al-Qaeda elements succeeded in controlling the camp, in addition to killing and wounding dozens of Shabwah Defense Forces

According to the sources, al-Qaeda elements destroyed three military pickup vehicles and a weapons depot, while the remaining members of the Shabwah Defense Forces fled.
Posted by Fred 2023-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [25 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula 

13:23 Crusader
13:19 Frank G
13:11 Frank G
13:11 SteveS
13:06 Skidmark
13:04 Rex Mundi
13:02 Skidmark
12:58 Rex Mundi
12:57 Rex Mundi
12:55 Rex Mundi
12:52 Skidmark
12:40 746
12:38 Grom the Reflective
12:34 Skidmark
12:31 Skidmark
12:28 Deacon+Blues
12:19 Skidmark
12:16 Bigfoot Chising1641
12:10 Skidmark
12:09 Bigfoot Chising1641
12:09 Skidmark
12:02 Skidmark
12:00 Skidmark
11:57 Lord Garth









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com