Al Qaeda driven out of Yemen city after killing 30 soldiers
- 2015-03-22
- 00:48:11
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Al Qaeda fighters captured the capital of a province in southern Yemen late on Friday, killing about 30 soldiers, before they were driven out by the army, local officials and residents said.
The fighting came hours after suicide bombers killed 137 people in the national capital Sanaa, in coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq.
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