Sanaa: U.S. airstrikes targeting leaders from Yemen’s active al-Qaida branch killed 15 suspected militants, Yemeni officials said on Tuesday.
According to Yemeni security and military officials, the missiles struck a school and a car in Abyan province in an area between Lauder and Mood where the militants were believed to be hiding.
There have been contradictory reports about whether the air strikes were carried out by warplanes or unmanned drones. The U.S. Army has increasingly used drones in the fight against militants in Yemen.
Thus, in September 2001, such an attack killed Anwar al-Awlaki , a US-born leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
On Monday evening, U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed for the first time publicly, that the US army in Pakistan has been using drones against suspected terrorists.
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