A drone strike killed six suspected al-Qaeda militants on Sunday in central Yemen, 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 told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Al-Qaeda’s global network remains “remarkably resilient,” posing more of a threat in some regions than the Islamic State group, UN sanctions monitors said in a report seen by AFP on Wednesday.
The report sent to the Security Council said that the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (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 took office in January 2017.
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