Drone strike kills local Qaeda chief in Yemen
A drone strike in Yemen likely carried out by US forces on Thursday killed a local Al-Qaeda chief and his guard, a security official said
A drone strike in Yemen likely carried out by US forces on Thursday killed a local Al-Qaeda chief and his guard, a security official said.
The strike hit a vehicle at Sawmaa in Al-Bayda province, killing Jalal al-Seydi, who was the “emir” of Al-Qaeda in the town of Loder, in the neighboring southern province of Abyan, the official said.
The United States is the only country operating drones over Yemen, but it only sporadically reports on the long-running bombing campaign against the country’s powerful Al-Qaeda branch.
The US authorities consider Al-Qaeda’s Yemen-based franchise, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to be its most dangerous.
AQAP and ISIS have exploited a power vacuum created by the conflict between the government and Shiite Houthi militia to expand their presence in Yemen, especially in the south and southeast.
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