Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Yemen: US drone strikes kill 10 al-Qaeda terrorists, Yemeni troops kill another 2, arrest 8

(Yemen) U.S. drones killed 10 al-Qaeda terrorists — one believed to be a top bomb-maker described as one of the "most dangerous elements" of al-Qaeda in the terrorists stronghold of Bayda province and the man in charge of a bomb-making lab — in separate strikes targeting moving vehicles in Yemen, officials and the country's state-run agency said on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Yemeni troops killed two al-Qaida terrorists and arrested eight others, including non-Yemenis, after storming houses used as hideouts in the town of Jaar, officials said. The raid was part of a wider manhunt seeking al-Qaeda fighters in towns that were formerly their strongholds.

Ramadan death count moves up to 2,136.