Two raids on Al-Qaeda in Yemen, at least one of them reportedly by a US drone, killed 30 people Wednesday, an official said, as the jihadists came under new pressure a day after losing two key strongholds.
The raids targeted Al-Qaeda fighters fleeing the southern region of Abyan where the army scored its first major victory against the jihadists on Tuesday, retaking the town of Jaar and the provincial capital Zinjibar, more than a year after they fell under militant control.
“Thirty terrorists were killed and dozens of others were wounded in two air strikes” in the mostly lawless southeastern province of Shabwa, General Ahmed al-Maqdashi, the region’s commander, said in a statement published on the defence ministry website.
