Yemen

A blast at a weapons factory in Jaar in Abyan province killed 78 people. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters looted the factory of truckloads of weapons and several armored vehicles prior to the blast, which is said to have been an accident.

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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