{"id":92210,"date":"2017-03-02T23:50:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92210"},"modified":"2017-03-02T23:50:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:50:35","slug":"us-drone-attack-kills-3-qaida-militants-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/02\/us-drone-attack-kills-3-qaida-militants-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"US drone attack kills 3 Qaida militants in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least three members of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch were killed in a US drone strike early Thursday in the country’s southeastern province of Shabwa, a military official told Xinhua. (Photo By TUBS – Own workThis vector graphics image was created with Adobe Illustrator.This file was uploaded with Commonist.This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this: \u00a0Yemen location map.svg (Photo by NordNordWest)., CC BY-SA 3.0,<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ADEN, Yemen\u2014At least three members of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch were killed in a US drone strike early Thursday in the country’s southeastern province of Shabwa, a military official told Xinhua.<\/p>\n

At about 6 a.m. local time, unmanned US aircraft fired a number of missiles at a house suspected of being a hideout of the al-Qaida terrorist group, the Yemeni military source said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Residents near the scene in the Saeid region in Shabwa confirmed to Xinhua that the airstrike destroyed the house used by al-Qaida operatives.<\/p>\n

An intelligence officer in the province said that a mid-level commander of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot is believed to have been killed in the strike.<\/p>\n

Details about the identities of the killed militants were not immediately available.<\/p>\n

Yemen’s southeastern province of Shabwa and central province of al-Bayda, where dozens of al-Qaida members are believed to be based, have been the focus of American-led airstrikes.<\/p>\n

Yemen, an impoverished Arab country, has been gripped by one of the most active regional al-Qaida insurgencies in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The Yemen-based Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), known locally as “Ansar al-Sharia”, emerged in January 2009, claiming responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks against Yemen’s army and governmental institutions.<\/p>\n

The AQAP and Islamic State-linked terrorists took advantage of the security vacuum and ongoing civil war to expand their influence and seize more territories in southern Yemen.<\/p>\n

Security in Yemen has further deteriorated since March 2015, when war broke out between the Shiite Houthi group, supported by former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and government forces backed by a Saudi-led Arab coalition.<\/p>\n

More than 10,000 people have been killed in ground battles and airstrikes since then, many of them civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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