Four suspected al Qaeda members were killed in a drone strike on a building in southern Yemen on Thursday, residents and local officials said.
The attack was in al-Saeed, an area of Shabwa province home to the al-Awaleq tribe, the extended clan of Anwar al-Awlaki, a militant cleric and U.S. citizen killed in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike.
Residents said they believed U.S. drones were used in Thursday’s strike.
The United States launched dozens of drone strikes throughout Barack Obama’s presidency to combat al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, regarded as one of the Islamist group’s most dangerous branches.
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/02/drone-strike-on-al-qaeda-in-yemen-kills-four-residents-and-officials/
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