Published on 12:00 AM, January 17, 2017
'Qaeda attack' kills 4 soldiers in Yemen
Afp, Aden
Four soldiers were killed and three wounded in a suspected Al-Qaeda attack on a checkpoint in southern Yemen, a security official said yesterday. "Terrorist elements on Sunday evening attacked... soldiers at a checkpoint" in the town of Loder in Abyan province, the official told AFP, requesting anonymity. AQAP is seen by Washington as the jihadist network's most dangerous franchise.
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