According to a Yemeni military official, the airstrikes in the Abyan mountains began around 3:30 a.m. Thursday local time.
WASHINGTON ? The United States conducted airstrikes overnight Thursday against several suspected Qaeda targets across south-central Yemen, according to American and Yemeni military officials, the first American attacks in the country since an ill-fated Special Operations raid in January.
American counterterrorism officials say the Qaeda wing in Yemen is one of the deadliest in the world and poses the most immediate threat to the American homeland.
Local media in Yemen also reported that at least three suspected Qaeda members were killed in the country?s southeastern province of Shabwa.
The coordinated series of attacks against Qaeda militants occurred in three Yemeni provinces that have been areas of suspected terrorist activity ? Abyan, Shabwa and Baydha ? according to a senior American military official and a Yemeni military official.
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