Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed it killed eight Yemeni soldiers in an ambush at a checkpoint in Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province. Security forces detained an AQAP suicide bomber in Abyan.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

Tags:

Iraq

Islamic state

Syria

Aqap

Al shabaab

Boko Haram

Isis