Topic: Zinjibar

Qaeda leader's brother among 11 dead in Yemen

The brother of an Al-Qaeda chief was among six militants killed in the restive southern Yemeni province of Abyan, where five soldiers also died in overnight clashes, local officials said on Thursday.Five Qaeda suspects died when their positions in Bajdar, on the ...

Suspected Qaeda chief killed in Yemen: official

A leader of suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Abyan province in south Yemen has been killed by the army, a government official said on Tuesday.The killing comes as tribesmen across Abyan began expelling the militants from the province.Hassan Basonbol, who went under the ...

Nine killed in Yemen army base attack

Seven militants and two soldiers were killed on Sunday in clashes after an attack on an army base in south Yemen's Zinjibar, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda, local officials and the military said."Two soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded" when militants ...
Seven militants and two soldiers were killed on Sunday in clashes after an attack on an army base in south Yemen's Zinjibar, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda, local officials and the military said."Two soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded" when militants ...