ADEN, Sept 25 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s pro-government forces, yesterday, continued anti-terror military operations, in the southern province of Abyan, a security official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The troops raided the al-Qaeda terrorist group’s strongholds, in various areas of the province in recent days, killing 24 armed al-Qaeda members, the local security source said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The troops launched yesterday, the fourth phase of the anti-terror campaign, aimed at pushing their elements out of the whole province,” the source added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said, al-Qaeda militants were evicted in four districts, following weeks of deadly fighting, adding, 32 soldiers were killed and 40 others wounded, in operations in the past several days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pro-government forces, backed by Saudi Arabia, also continued their operations against al-Qaeda militants in other southern areas, according to the official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday, military units of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), which are part of Yemen’s government, attacked al-Qaeda hideouts and positions, in various mountainous areas of turbulent Abyan, making headway on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, the STC troops launched a major anti-terror operation code-named “Arrows of the East” in Abyan, to combat terrorist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) network, has been responsible for many high-profile attacks against the security forces in the country’s southern provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AQAP has exploited years of deadly conflict between the Yemeni government and Houthi militia, to expand its presence in the war-ravaged Arab country.– NNN-YPA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ADEN, Sept 25 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s pro-government forces, yesterday, continued anti-terror military operations, in the southern province of Abyan, a security official said. The troops raided the al-Qaeda terrorist group’s strongholds, in various areas of the province in recent days, killing 24 armed al-Qaeda members, the local security source said. “The troops launched yesterday, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192724,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192719\/revisions\/192724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}