The United States launched a wave of airstrikes against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, targets in Yemen on Friday, following more than 20 strikes on Thursday. This would appear to be a significant escalation in the fight against the group, which has been implicated in a number of plots to attack the United States. The Pentagon says the strikes targeted AQAP “fighters, heavy weapons systems, equipment infrastructure and the group’s fighting positions,” Al Jazeera reports, but residents say at least one strike hit civilian homes in Wadi Yashbum village in the southern Shabwah province, killing an unknown number of civilians.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/03/the_trump_administration_is_ramping_up_the_war_in_yemen.html
