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Yemen conflict : Al-Qaeda joins coalition battle for Taiz -

BBC News
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The BBC has found evidence in Yemen that troops from a Saudi-led coalition force and al-Qaeda militants are both fighting Houthi rebels in a key battle.
On a visit to the frontline near the city of Taiz, a documentary maker filmed jihadists as well as UAE-supported pro-government militiamen.
The coalition of 10 mostly Sunni Arab states is backing Yemen’s government in its war against the Shia rebels.
But it denies co-operating with Sunni extremists also opposed to the Houthis.
The coalition’s member states consider al-Qaeda a terrorist organisation, and the jihadist network’s local affiliates have attacked coalition forces and Yemeni government personnel.
At least 6,000 people have been killed in Yemen since March 2015, when the coalition launched a military campaign to defeat the Houthis and allied army units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and restore the government.

Suspected Qaeda militants kill four Yemeni soldiers at checkpoint
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Suspected #al-Qaeda militants in police uniforms killed four soldiers Tuesday in an attack on a special forces’ checkpoint in southeastern #Yemen, a security official said. The attack is the latest in a series of deadly operations against security forces blamed on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), perceived as the jihadist network’s most dangerous affiliate. The gunmen “suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda” opened fire on the checkpoint at the western entrance to the port city of Mukalla, the provincial capital of Hadramawt, the official said. read more

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Qaeda claims #Yemen #hospital_attack a mistake, offers compensation
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A nurse checks a wounded Yemeni man as he lies in bed at a hospital in the Yemen capital Sanaa, the day after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into the Yemeni defense ministry complex which included a hospital, on December 6, 2013. (AFP - Mohammed Huwais)

A deadly #al-Qaeda attack this month on a Yemeni defense ministry hospital was a mistake and the jihadist network is ready to pay blood money, a top jihadist commander has said. The brazen daylight attack on the defense ministry complex on December 5 left 56 people dead, including patients and foreign medics from the Philippines, Germany, Vietnam and India. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has already claimed responsibility for the attack and late Saturday its military chief said in an (...)

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