SANA’A: Three suspected Al Qaeda militants were killed in Maarib province, east of the Yemeni capital Sana’a, in what local officials and tribal sources said was a strike by a US drone late on Thursday. They said the suspects were hit as they were travelling in a car in the Wadi Obaida area, in the oil-producing Maarib province. Several explosions were heard, witnesses said.
Saudi Qaeda rebel killed in Syria
DUBAI: A suspected Al Qaeda insurgent who is on Saudi Arabia’s wanted list of 47 militants abroad, has been killed in Syria, the SITE monitoring group said yesterday. Saudi national Abdullah Suleiman Salih Al Dhabah, known as Abu Ali Al Qasimi, waged jihad in Pakistan and Afghanistan before going to Syria, where he was killed in the city of Al Bab in Aleppo by a rocket from a MiG plane, SITE said, citing online messages posted by Islamists on January 18.
Israeli troops kill Palestinian
GAZA: Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man yesterday and wounded another in a cross-border confrontation with protesters in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army and Palestinian hospital officials said. The shooting occurred as tensions ran high after Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants in a Gaza air strike on Wednesday, blaming one of them for a rocket attack during the funeral of late prime minister Ariel Sharon earlier this month. Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli troops had fired across the border into Gaza on, killing a civilian aged 20 and wounding another man.
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