ADEN: A drone strike on Sunday killed five suspected Al Qaeda militants in the Yemeni province of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, security officials said.
One official said a US drone had probably carried out the strike, which targeted a car in the province’s Saoud district.
The United States considers the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to be the radical group’s most dangerous branch.
AQAP has flourished in the chaos of the country’s civil war, which pits the Saudi-backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi against the Huthi rebels.
A long-running drone war against AQAP has intensified since US President Donald Trump took office in January.
An air raid he ordered that month killed a US Navy SEAL and several Yemeni civilians in Baida province, just south of Marib.
More than 8,000 people have been killed since a Saudi-led coalition joined the Yemen war on Hadi’s side in 2015.
onek sundor kaj kortesen. evabe korle valo agaiya jaben.
oh shit !!!
If it is true 8,000 are killed ... how wrong , maybe 90% are innocent? An undeclared war on the people of Yemen.