US aircraft targeted al-Qaeda militants in Shabwa province

A militant from al-Qaeda organization was killed by an American airstrike targeted his car in Shabwa province. According to media sources, a drone launched a raid on a car carrying two gunmen believed to belong to al Qaeda, in the suburbs of the Al-Rawda directorate, killing one of them immediately.

A Yemeni soldier was killed and eight others were injured, Saturday, in an armed attack by al-Qaeda militants on a security point in the government-controlled Lahj province. A security source said that a soldier in the security belt forces named Mohammed Abdullah Omar, was killed in an attack by al-Qaeda members on a security point in the town of Askaria, north of Lahj. He added that the attack also resulted in the injury of eight other soldiers were taken to a nearby hospital, some of them affected serious injuries.

According to a security source in Nham, said that the Yemeni army forces have completed their control on Douah and Ayani mountains, east of Sana'a.
 
On Saturday, dozens of civilians were killed in a massacre carried out by Saleh and Houthis militias in As Silw district, south of the city. Heavy fighting between government forces and militias took place on the western front of the city following an attempt to infiltrate into the vicinity of Han mount in Rubaie area, but government forces thwarted the operation.

 According to field sources, the fighting between the two sides left five dead and dozens injured in the ranks of the militia. During the battles described as violent against militias in the eastern front of the city, government forces seized two buildings around al-Tashrifat camp. On the eastern and western fronts, many civilians were killed by indiscriminate bombardment of residential areas with artillery shells and Katyusha rockets.
Armed clashes broke out between tribal militants and Houthi militia, in front of the government complex south of the capital Sana'a. "The clashes lasted about half an hour without knowing the reasons," informed sources said.

In Aden, Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Obaid bin Dajar said Saturday that Houthi ballistic missiles were made in Iran before they were smuggled into the country. "This came in the comments published by the Prime Minister, through his official page on Twitter.
 
"The Houthi militias have destroyed cities, hospitals, schools and mosques, and there is still being destroyed, like in the most populous city of Taiz, in the southwest," he said.
 
He pointed out that all the crimes of Houthis occurred outside the law and constitutional and international legitimacy, which issued a number of resolutions on Yemen, including UN Security Council resolution No. 2216. "The invasion of the capital Sana'a by Houthi militias formed the bulk of what is happening today in Yemen, and this fact is known by everyone," he added.