Four suspected Al-Qaeda members were claimed by an American security source that they were killed in drone strikes in central Yemen likely carried out by US forces on Saturday.
The source, asking not to be identified, said three “armed fighters of Al-Qaeda” died when their vehicle was struck in the Sawmaa region of Al-Bayda province.
A drone strike on Friday killed a local military instructor for Al-Qaeda in the same province, he said.
The United States, which considers Al-Qaeda’s Yemen-based franchise, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), to be its most dangerous, is the only force operating drones over Yemen.
But it only sporadically reports on a long-running bombing campaign against AQAP.
Al-Qaeda and the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist groups have exploited a power vacuum created by the two-year-old Saudi-US aggression on Yemen.
Source: AFP
