Publication Date:
Sun, 2012-03-18 15:01
Militants captured Jaar in the Abyan Province in March last year after the outbreak of protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year rule and have turned it into their main base in southern Yemen.
The raid comes after a spate of attacks by Ansar Al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law), the deadliest of which killed at least 110 conscripts last week, in a reminder of the challenges faced by newly elected President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Earlier on Sunday, two men on a motorcycle shot and killed an American teacher in the Yemeni city of Taiz, south of the capital Sanaa.
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