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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on August 02, 2019, 07:23:47 pm
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Al-Qaeda launches deadly attack on army base in southern Yemen
An al-Qaeda attack on a military camp in war-torn Yemen has killed at least 19 soldiers, security officials said, a day after dozens of people were killed in separate assaults by Houthi rebels and the Islamic State in Aden.
Gunmen stormed the al-Mahfad army base in southern Abyan province on Friday and remained inside for several hours before military reinforcements came, three security officials told AFP news agency.
"The Qaeda gunmen took advantage of what happened [on Thursday] in Aden and launched an assault on al-Mahfad base and clashed with soldiers," a government security official said.
Read more at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/al-qaeda-launches-deadly-attack-army-base-southern-yemen-190802081549242.html (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/al-qaeda-launches-deadly-attack-army-base-southern-yemen-190802081549242.html)
Houthis attack one day, aq the next. Makes one wonder. Two big attacks against the Saudi side, I'd say. And UAE is extracting themselves from that war. Hard to see what is going on.