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Al-Qaeda in Yemen reports death of three senior commanders
2022-06-14
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Al-Qaeda in Ma’rib province has on Sunday admitted to the death of three of its most prominent military leaders.

A statement issued by the organization said that Amir Abu Haidara al-Adani was killed by Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i forces while participating in the fighting in the ranks of the Saudi-led coalition forces on the outskirts of Bayda province.

The statement praised what it described as "the long march of Abu Haidara al-Adani" in the fight against the forces of Sana’a, without referring to the date of his death.

The terrorist organization also mourned two other Amirs of al-Qaeda, who were killed during an attack that targeted the convoy of the commander of the Security Belt in Abyan
...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 Emirate after 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, Brigadier General Abdullatif al-Sayed, on March 15th.

The terrorist movement had previously issued other obituary statements for leaders who were killed in Ma’rib, the latest of which was one issued on October 11, 2021, on the killing of Yasser Laakab al-Omari, commander in the 156th Brigade loyal to the coalition, who was killed by the defenders of Yemen.
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Ma’rib province: 2022-05-22 Dozens of Al-Qaeda terrorists deployed to Shabwah province
Ma’rib province: 2020-03-02 Yemenis Seize Capital of Strategic al-Jawf as Saudi-led Mercenaries Retreat
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