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A senior leader of Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch has been killed in fighting in the nearly lawless south of the country, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
A ministry statement said Ayed al-Shabwani was killed in fighting Tuesday near the town of Zinjibar, a provincial capital that has been held by al-Qaeda-linked militants since May. Al-Qaeda in Yemen has been taking advantage of the turmoil arising from months of anti-regime protests across much of the poor Arab nation, seizing and holding territory in the south.
