ADEN: A suicide bombing killed two soldiers and wounded six others in eastern Yemen on Friday, a military official said, blaming Al-Qaeda militants for the attack.

An explosives-laden car “driven by a suicide attacker from Al-Qaeda” exploded at a checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Shibam, in Hadramawt province, the official told AFP. Militants from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula remain active in the south and east despite relentless campaigns by government forces, backed by US drone strikes.

Meanwhile, security forces arrested two members of Al-Qaeda in the central province of Taiz, Saba state news agency reported citing a security official.

Yemen’s President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi said on Thursday that he asked Washington to provide Sanaa with drones, adding that strikes conducted by unmanned US planes are part of the cooperation between the two countries in the fight against Al-Qaeda.