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#al-Qaeda gunmen attack police camp, kill two
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Gunmen have killed two Yemeni police in an attack on a camp for anti-riot forces in the central province of Baida, an al-Qaeda stronghold, an official said Thursday. The assailants on board two vehicles fired machine-guns at the camp in the town of Rada late on Wednesday, and on-duty policemen shot back at them, said the regional government official. “Two policemen were killed and a third was wounded” in the clash, he said, adding the assailants fled after failing to storm the camp. The official was unable to say if there were any casualties among the attackers. read more

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Death toll from US strike on Yemeni wedding reaches 17
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Medea Benjamin (L), co-founder of the anti-war group CodePink, places flowers on mock graves of drone victims in Afghanistan, Pakistan and #Yemen, in front of the White House in Washington on November 15, 2013 ahead of the Global Drone Summit. (Photo: AFP - Nicholas Kamm)

A US drone strike on a wedding convoy in Yemen killed 17 people, mostly civilians, medical and security sources said Friday, adding grist to mounting criticism of the US drone war. “Some” of the dead in Thursday’s strike near the central town of Radaa were suspected militants, but the rest were all civilians with no connection to the jihadist network, a security official said. The death toll from the two-missile strike rose to 17 overnight, a medical source in Radaa told AFP. read (...)

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US #drone attack kills several civilians in Yemeni wedding
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Several civilians were killed and others wounded in a drone attack in southern #Yemen in which a wedding party was struck on Thursday, witnesses said. The witnesses and a tribal source said the attack was carried out by a US drone and targeted Qaifa, near the town of Radaa, but were unable to give specific casualty figures. The US military operates all unmanned drones flying over Yemen in support of Sanaa’s campaign against al-Qaeda and has killed dozens of militants this year. read more

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