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A court sentenced seven al Qaeda fighters to prison sentences ranging from five to 10 years for attacking foreign and local targets. Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen’s North claimed to have withdrawn from a series of villages across the border in Saudi Arabia.

The government claimed al Qaeda was responsible for the Jan. 24 attack at a checkpoint in Shabwa province. “Five tribal leaders in Shabwa are negotiating with al Qaeda members to give themselves up,” a security official said. The leader of the Shia Houthi rebels offered a truce to Saudi Arabia so it could withdraw its […]

Both the Yemeni and Saudi governments claimed the Shia Houthi rebels operating in the North are coordinating attacks with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Three soldiers were killed in an attack at a checkpoint in Ataq in Shabwa province, an al Qaeda stronghold.

The military bombed the home of an al Qaeda operative said to have been killed in an airstrike last week. Both the US and the UN added Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to their lists of terrorist entities. Thirty-six former American prisoners are thought to have joined al Qaeda in Yemen.

Security forces reportedly captured Said al Shihri, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s second in command, after his car turned over at a checkpoint in Shabwa. Al Qaeda denied that Qasim al Raymi and five other leaders were killed in last week’s airstrike. Yemen stepped up security at energy facilities in Shabwa.

The government confirmed that Abu Hurayrah Qasim al Raymi, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s military commander, was killed in the Jan. 15 airstrike. Five other al Qaeda operatives, including an Egyptian bomb-maker and the commander in Marib province, were also killed.