Yemen

Tareq al Dhahab, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said his forces would quit the town of Rada’a if the government frees more than 400 prisoners. Dhahab also demanded the imposition of sharia law in Rada’a.

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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