Yemen

Two Yemeni soldiers were killed in an ambush in the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula stronghold of Shabwa province. Security forces detained five al Qaeda fighters in the district of Lauder in Abyan province, another AQAP stronghold.

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

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