37 Militant Foreigners Killed in Yemen
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Yemeni military forces waged an offensive in the southern Shabwa province in Yemen, killing 37 suspected militants from the al-Qaeda terrorist group, most of them being from Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Somalia and Afghanistan, according to state news agency SABA on Sunday.
Citing a military source, SABA reported that the majority of the al-Qaeda militants killed in the army operation were Saudis, Afghans, Somalis and Chechen as well as from other countries.
Dozens of al-Qaeda elements were also injured in the Sunday attack by government troops on suspected militant hideouts in the town of Maifaa, Yemeni defense ministry said.
Several army soldiers have also been reported to have been killed during the clashes.
Meanwhile, shortly after the deaths of the militants were reported on Sunday, an unnamed military source was cited in press reports as saying that six soldiers had died when a suicide bomber attacked a military outpost in Shabwa.
The day before [Saturday], an al-Qaeda leader, a native of Chechnya, and four other militants were killed in an army operation in the neighboring Abyan province.
The militants reportedly moved to the area when their training camps were shut down in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
This is while the Yemeni army announced last week that it had launched a major military campaign in the southern provinces of Shabwa and Abyan.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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