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Al-Qaeda Militants Killed
theage.com.au 4 days, 10 hours agoTroops and warplanes have pounded al-Qaeda positions in southern Yemen.
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Factbox: AQAP, Al Qaeda's Yemen-based Wing
yahoo.com 5 hours, 32 minutes ago(Reuters) - Yemen, which has become increasingly unstable in recent years, suffered one of its bloodiest attacks on Monday. The militant group Ansar al-Sharia said it was behind the attack, which killed 90 people in the capital, Sanaa. The group is affiliated to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Here is a look at Ansar al-Sharia and AQAP: * ANSAR AL-SHARIA: -- When Islamists seized control of towns in the southern province of Abyan in May 2011 they identified themselves as Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans


















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