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2023-06-12 Arabia
AQAP launches attack against UAE-backed forces in Shabwah
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
(AQAP) has lanuched an attack on the UAE-backed Forces in Shabwah province, southwest Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
Local sources reported that button men belonging to al-Qaeda launched an attack on the Shabwa defense forces camp in the al-Musaina’a area of al-Sa’eed district, using RPGs and heavy machine guns.

The sources explained that al-Qaeda elements also used drones in their attack, and citizens heard violent mostly peaceful explosions resulting from dronezaps.

Al-Qaeda elements succeeded in controlling the camp, in addition to killing and wounding dozens of Shabwah Defense Forces

According to the sources, al-Qaeda elements destroyed three military pickup vehicles and a weapons depot, while the remaining members of the Shabwah Defense Forces fled.
Posted by Fred 2023-06-12 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11165 views ]  Top
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