Southern Transitional Council says attacker \u201cdrove a booby-trapped car into a site for security forces\u201d
\nADEN
\nA suicide bomber killed 12 Yemeni soldiers in a military post in the southern province of Abyan on Friday morning, authorities said.
\nThe attacker \u201cdrove a booby-trapped car into a site for the security forces,\u201d in the Mudiyah district, Mohamed al-Naqib, a spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council, said.
\nNo group immediately claimed responsibility, but people linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have stepped up attacks on military facilities in Yemen.
\nAl Qaeda\u2019s Yemeni branch has used a nine-year conflict between the Iran-aligned Houthi group and a Saudi-backed coalition to bolster its influence in a country that shares a border with Saudi Arabia and sits near major shipping lanes.
\nThe Southern Transitional Council \u2014 which is allied with the Saudi coalition and controls large parts of the south which it wants to secede \u2014 has stepped up offensives against Al Qaeda elements in Abyan over the past year.
\nAQAP has survived years of attempted crackdowns by the US military, the coalition and the Houthis, taking advantage of Yemen\u2019s mayhem, tribal sympathies and the large stretches of empty territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Southern Transitional Council says attacker \u201cdrove a booby-trapped car into a site for security forces\u201d ADEN A suicide bomber killed 12 Yemeni soldiers in a military post in the southern province of Abyan on Friday morning, authorities said. The attacker \u201cdrove a booby-trapped car into a site for the security forces,\u201d in the Mudiyah district, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68966,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68940\/revisions\/68966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}