Suspected US drone attack kills 4 Al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen

SANAA, Yemen: A suspected US airstrike killed four Al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen’s eastern province of Marib on Sunday, Yemeni tribal and security officials said.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, say the operatives killed were driving a car when an unmanned aircraft targeted their vehicle. Two of the men killed were identified as belonging to one of the local tribes, the others remain unidentified.
The airstrike comes less than a day after a similar strike killed three Al-Qaeda members in the neighboring province of Shabwa.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, seen by Washington as among the most dangerous branches of the global terror network, has exploited the chaos of Yemen’s civil war, seizing territory in the south and east.