A MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle prepares to land after a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson)
Five members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were killed in a strike blamed on the United States in southern Yemeni province of Abyan, AFP reported on May 24, citing two Yemeni security sources..
“Residents of the area informed us of the U.S. strike… five Al-Qaeda members were eliminated,” a security source from Abyan told the news agency.
“The US strike on Friday evening, north of Khabar Al-Maraqsha, killed five,” another source said, referring to a mountainous area known to be used by AQAP.
The second security source added that, though the names of those killed in the strike were not known, it was believed one of Abyan’s local leaders was among the dead.
AQAP has taken advantage of the unrest in Yemen, waging an insurgency against both the internationally-recognized government based in the southern province of Aden, which broders Abyan, as well as against the Houthis, especially in the central province of Ma’rib.
Earlier this month, the U.S. halted a large-scale aerial campaign in Yemen it launched in mid-March in response to Houthi attacks on Israel-affiliated shipping. Washington brokered a ceasefire agreement with the group. The strike in Abyan confirms, however, that the U.S. is still militarily active in the country.
The conflict in Yemen, which began with a rebellion by the Houthis in 2014 then a Saudi-led military intervention the next year, caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
The fighting decreased significantly after a United Nations-brokered six-month ceasefire in 2022. However, the country is still fragmented and unstable with terrorist groups like AQAP gaining influence.
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the ratbags must have gone off script ; ran out of dope.
more dead sand-apes!!!
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shitfront’s newest heroes are already being ass-kicked…heheheh
how’s eilat getting on? how’s the tourist industry now? fancy buying some shlomo government bonds? how are those settlers getting on in their hotels? have they filled in those 80 foot craters at ben gurion yet?
oh come on…they don’t kill their own operatives. more likely to be muslims who preferred not be blackmailed into terrorist acts.