May 04, 2014 06:58 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 07:13 pm IST - SANAA
Yemen’s military said it has killed 37 suspected al-Qaeda fighters in an ongoing offensive in a southern province.
A Defence Ministry statement on Sunday said the fighters were killed overnight in clashes and airstrikes in the town of Meyfaa during an ongoing U.S.-backed campaign to drive al-Qaeda out of the southern provinces of Abyan and Shabwa.
Also in Shabwa, security officials said the Army exploded landmines in several areas around Meyfaa that they said al-Qaeda fighters had laid.
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