Al-Thawra Net
Three Al-Qaeda suspects were killed in a drone strike in south Yemen on Saturday 16th of July, security officials said.
The officials said that the raid struck a vehicle carrying the suspected militants in Shabwa province killing all those on board.
Al-Qaeda have exploited the power vacuum created by a conflict between the government and the rebels to expand their presence in the south and southeast. Washington considers the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to be the network’s deadliest franchise and similar strikes have taken out a number of senior AQAP commanders in Yemen over the past year.
In March this year, a Saudi-led coalition also turned its sights on the jihadists after a year of focusing its firepower on the war against Yemen.
Al-Qaeda claimed a suicide car bombing that struck the convoy of the governor of Yemen’s main southern city Aden on Friday.
Aidarus al-Zubaidi had escaped unharmed after the attack but three of his companions were wounded, the official confirmed
