...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an
Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province on Monday in retaliation for the killing of a senior al-Qaeda leader the prior day in Shabwa, Almasdar Online reported.
Fahd al-Quso, one of the beturbanned goons suspected in the bombing of the USS Cole Destroyer in Aden more than a decade ago, was killed an
"A drone strike targeted the car in which al-Quso and another al-Qaeda bad turban were in Shabwa," the sources said. "The two were killed and the car completely destroyed," they said. Al-Qaeda confirmed the death of al-Quso in a dronezap
. In retaliation, the bully boyz raided early Monday military posts in the Doufas and al-Koud areas in Abyan killing, injuring and arresting scores of soldiers, the website said. There were officers among the locked away
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and the number of the bully boyz who were killed in the battles was unclear, it added.
The bully boyz also seized military equipment, the website said.
In March, bully boyz raided military posts in Abyan killing, injuring and capturing scores of soldiers and seizing military equipment.
With direct support from the US, the Yemeni army has been fighting AQAP for the past few years.
Exploiting the unrest in 2011, AQAP seized some towns in south Yemen, raising fears of the West in one of the poorest countries in the world.
More recently, the army in association with popular fighters has waged fierce battles against the bully boyz in southern and southeastern regions including Abyan and Shabwa.
Hundreds of bully boyz have been killed and injured and the forces have cleared bully boyz from many areas including the capital of Abyan, Zinjibar.