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SANAA, Yemen — An airstrike Tuesday killed three alleged al-Qaeda militants in the country’s southeast, Yemeni tribal leaders said Tuesday.
The leaders, who witnessed the strike in Hadramawt province, said they saw it hit a vehicle carrying the three militants and suspected it came from a U.S. drone.
A Yemeni official said the government had not carried out any strikes in the area.
The United States has regularly carried out drone strikes in Yemen, escalating the rate of attacks the past year. Washington rarely confirms individual strikes.
Yemen is fighting a war against al-Qaeda’s local branch, which Washington considers one of the world’s most dangerous offshoots of the terror network.
