At least 20 people killed in helicopter attacks hitting
houses in southern province of al-Bayda, local
sources say.
Dawn raids by US drones and helicopters have killed
at least 20 people in Yemen, including civilians and
threet riball chiefs reported to have links to al-Qaeda,
local sources say.
A source told the ERIC GOSSIP on his email that at
least six homes were destroyed and a number civilians
were trapped under the rubble in Yakla district, in the
southern province of al-Bayda.
Eight women and eight children were among those
killed, a provincial official, who did not want to be
named, sources told the local media.
The killed al-Qaeda figures were identified as brothers
Abdulraouf and Sultan al-Zahab and Saif Alawi al-Jawfi.
Three US helicopters were reportedly involved in the
attacks, firing missiles and helicopter machine-guns.
There was no comment from Washington on the raids.
The operation was the first in Yemen attributed to
the US since President Donald Trump took office on
January 20.
The US has stepped up its use of drone strikes in
recent years and is the only force known to be
operating drones over Yemen.
Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL, known as ISIS) have exploited Yemen's two-year
war to carry out assassinations and bombings,
mostly in lawless areas in the south.
According to the UN, more than 10,000 people have
died - nearly half of them civilians - since a Saudi-led
coalition launched air strikes on Yemen in March 2015.

The Saudi king who is waging a war on Yemen,
ReplyDeleteonce financed Al Qaeda in Afghanistan - see:
What Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung
December 11, 2015 - ".... King Salman was in the
middle of creating Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda
as it was later dubbed in the media. His
involvement goes back to the late 1970’s when
he, as Governor of Riyadh, was named head of
major conservative Saudi charities later discovered
financing Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
Salman worked intimately as the financial funding
conduit for what became Al Qaeda together with
bin Laden’s Saudi intelligence “handler,” then-head
of Saudi Intelligence, Prince Turki Al-Faisal and the
Saudi-financed Muslim World League....."
He also released inmates on death row in Saudi
Arabia to fight in Syria.
Let me tell you syria has no friend apart from ,Iran and Russia so they work hand in hand.
ReplyDeleteMy question is,who created ISIS and boko haram ?
ReplyDeleteTrump would have come and save them than been busy trying to ban the Muslims.
ReplyDeleteIs the US going to print a new
ReplyDeleteedition of ABC's of Jihad
textbook for the Syrian rebels
like those for the rebels of
Afghanistan?
I better not go to any of this countries because I will be a targeted victim. don't want to be cut like goats my God will not allow that happen. I and my families are covred with the blood of Jesus.
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