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| 10 Yemeni forces killed in al-Qaeda militant raids |
| 2014-08-07 |
| [Iran Press TV] At least ten Yemeni soldiers have been killed in separate festivities with suspected al-Qaeda Lions of Islam in three provinces, security officials say. "Gunmen probably belonging to al-Qaeda opened fire on an army vehicle in Habban in Shabwa province, killing five soldiers and wounding another," a security official said on Wednesday. The official who was speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... said that the assailants escaped the scene of the attack. Another security official said gunnies clashed with Yemeni soldiers and killed two of them in the city of Sayun in Hadramawt province. The official added the clash broke out on Wednesday when "Qaeda gunnies" confronted forces from the 135th Armored Brigade on their way towards the city, which is a stronghold of al-Qaeda. The Defense Ministry also said in a statement that Yemeni troops killed 18 al-Qaeda members in this confrontation, adding that several others, including a Saudi national, were detained. In the province of Baida, suspected al-Qaeda Lions of Islam also rubbed out three members of the Interior Ministry's special forces in an ambush in Rada. Six other personnel were also injured. On August 4, four soldiers were killed in ambushes in Hadramawt, two days after Lions of Islam rubbed out four coppers in an attack on a checkpoint in Shabwa. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been blamed for both attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred |