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In addition to al-Harethi, five other occupants of the SUV were killed, all of whom were suspected al-Qaeda members, and one of whom (Kamal Derwish) was an American. [435] [438] In May 2010, an errant U.S. drone attack targeting al Qaeda members in Wadi Abida, Yemen, killed five people, including Jaber al-Shabwani, deputy governor of Maarib ...
Al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQY), [a] also known as al-Qaeda in the Land of Yemen (AQLY) [b] and al-Qaeda in the Southern Arabian Peninsula (AQSAP) [c] in its later iteration, was a Sunni Islamist militant organization which existed between 1998 to 2003, and 2006 to 2009.
In 2011, AQAP created Ansar Al-Sharia as a Yemen-based affiliate focused on waging an insurgency rather than international attacks on the West. [12] In the view of the International Crisis Group , AQAP is "an internally diverse organisation with varying layers of support among the local population" and many AAS members and allies are not ...
The Islamic Emirate of Yemen (Arabic: إِمَارَةُ ٱلْيَمَنُ ٱلْإِسْلَامِيَّةْ) was a short-lived unrecognised Islamic state established by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula after the 2015 Battle of Mukalla, as part of their goal to establish an Islamic emirate in Hadhramaut. [1]
Template: Yemeni Civil War detailed map. 5 languages. ... AQAP presence between Al-Bayda and Shabwah. AQAP presence in Hatib district. Jayshan. Wadi Omaran. Maswarah ...
Other such al-Qaeda affiliated groups included the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army and al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQY). [ 31 ] On 12 October 2000, two AQY suicide bombers drove a rubber dinghy loaded with explosives into the side of the USS Cole while it was docked at the Port of Aden , blowing a hole in the side of the ship and killing 17 members of the crew ...
The 2012 Abyan offensive was an offensive by the Yemeni military against Islamist militant forces, possibly including elements of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), in the province of Abyan with the purpose of re-capturing the militant-held towns of Zinjibar and Jaʿār.
According to al-Sari Houthi forces seized 1,000 km 2 of terrain from control of Jihadist groups (Al-Qaeda and Islamic State in Yemen), inflicted 250 killed, wounded and captured whilst destroying 12 enemy bases. [13] On 22 August, Houthi media revealed the advances made by Houthi fighters against Al-Qaeda and Islamic State forces in Bayda.