02-05-2015, 12:12 PM
US hits AQAP in Yemen
A senior cleric for al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen --the group claiming responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France -- was killed along with three other people in a drone strike on their vehicle January 31 in Yemen, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said in a statement released Thursday.
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The cleric, ^ Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari, was killed in Yemen's south-central Shabwa province, AQAP said. Al-Nadhari made headlines in November when he inserted himself into a rivalry between al Qaeda and ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. He blamed ISIS for causing dissent amongst jihadists.
The strike would be a further indication that a U.S.-led drone strike program is continuing following a pause during political upheaval in the majority Sunni Muslim nation.
The United States has long conducted drone strikes against AQAP targets under the Obama administration. But the New America Foundation, which tracks the strikes, says there was a nearly two-month pause in the strikes in late 2014 and early 2015 as Shiite Muslim Houthi rebels moved against Yemen's U.S.-backed government.
Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/05/world/...index.html
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Jordan strikes IS in Syria
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Two days after news emerged that ISIS had burned a captive Jordanian pilot to death, the Middle Eastern nation hit back with airstrikes targeting the terror group -- following through on its vow of "earthshaking retaliation."
Jordanian fighter jets returned from their mission and flew over the home of the slain 27-year-old pilot, Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh, in the village of Ay in Karak governorate. King Abdullah II, there to offer his condolences to al-Kasasbeh's family, pointed out the fighter jets overhead as proof that Jordan was responding with force, according to the executed pilot's father.
The father, Safi al-Kasasbeh, told CNN that the king promised him that Jordan would avenge his son's death and bombard ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria. On Thursday, Safi al-Kasasbeh said he'd been told by the king that 30 Jordanian fighter jets had participated in the strikes.
Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/05/world/...index.html
A senior cleric for al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen --the group claiming responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France -- was killed along with three other people in a drone strike on their vehicle January 31 in Yemen, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said in a statement released Thursday.
The cleric, ^ Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari, was killed in Yemen's south-central Shabwa province, AQAP said. Al-Nadhari made headlines in November when he inserted himself into a rivalry between al Qaeda and ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. He blamed ISIS for causing dissent amongst jihadists.
The strike would be a further indication that a U.S.-led drone strike program is continuing following a pause during political upheaval in the majority Sunni Muslim nation.
The United States has long conducted drone strikes against AQAP targets under the Obama administration. But the New America Foundation, which tracks the strikes, says there was a nearly two-month pause in the strikes in late 2014 and early 2015 as Shiite Muslim Houthi rebels moved against Yemen's U.S.-backed government.
Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/05/world/...index.html
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Jordan strikes IS in Syria
Two days after news emerged that ISIS had burned a captive Jordanian pilot to death, the Middle Eastern nation hit back with airstrikes targeting the terror group -- following through on its vow of "earthshaking retaliation."
Jordanian fighter jets returned from their mission and flew over the home of the slain 27-year-old pilot, Lt. Moath al-Kasasbeh, in the village of Ay in Karak governorate. King Abdullah II, there to offer his condolences to al-Kasasbeh's family, pointed out the fighter jets overhead as proof that Jordan was responding with force, according to the executed pilot's father.
The father, Safi al-Kasasbeh, told CNN that the king promised him that Jordan would avenge his son's death and bombard ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria. On Thursday, Safi al-Kasasbeh said he'd been told by the king that 30 Jordanian fighter jets had participated in the strikes.
Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/05/world/...index.html