US strike on Yemen kills Al Qaeda members-- Yemeni security sources
Armed Yemenis chant slogans during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians and the Gaza Strip and in condemnation of Israel and the US, in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on Friday (AFP photo)
DUBAI — Five Al Qaeda members have been killed in a strike blamed on the United States in southern Yemen, two Yemeni security sources told AFP on Saturday.
"Residents of the area informed us of the US strike... five Al Qaeda members were eliminated," said a security source in Abyan province, which borders the seat of Yemen's internationally-recognised government in Aden.
"The US strike on Friday evening north of Khabar Al Maraqsha killed five," said a second source, referring to a mountainous area known to be used by Al Qaeda.
The second security source added that, though the names of those killed in the strike were not known, it was believed one of Al Qaeda's local leaders was among the dead.
Washington once regarded the group, known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), as the militant network's most dangerous branch.
Born in 2009 from the merger of Al Qaeda's Yemeni and Saudi factions, AQAP grew and developed in the chaos of Yemen's war, which since 2015 has pitted the Iran-backed Houthi rebels against a Saudi-led coalition backing the government.
Earlier this month, the United States agreed a ceasefire with the Houthis, who have controlled large swathes of Yemen for more than a decade, ending weeks of intense American strikes on rebel-held areas of the country.
The Houthis began firing at shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in November 2023, weeks after the start of the Hamas-Israel war, prompting military strikes by the US and Britain beginning in January 2024.
The conflict in Yemen has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, although fighting decreased significantly after a UN-negotiated six-month truce in 2022.
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