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A US airstrike targeted the prominent Saudi leader of the Takfiri “Al-Qaeda” organization, known as “Abu Muhammad Al-Hazli Al-Makki,” on Thursday in Shabwa Governorate, southeastern Yemen.
Media outlets affiliated with the Saudi-UAE coalition reported that the strike was carried out by a US drone and focused on a stronghold of the organization in the “Al-Masayneh” area in the “Al-Said” district, south of the city of Ataq (the provincial capital), resulting in the immediate death of Al-Hazli Al-Makki.
The reports noted that this operation is part of a series of recent US strikes against the group, as just days ago, “Abu Ali Al-Dhisi” (the Emir of Qifa province within the organization) was killed in a US airstrike in the same governorate.
In another development, the situation coincided with a separate incident in Marib Governorate, where an Al-Qaeda member named “Abu Yusuf Al-Muhammadi” was killed in a motorcycle bomb explosion in the “Al-Sumda” area in the Wadi district.
It is worth mentioning that Shabwa Governorate has a notable Al-Qaeda presence, with an increase in airstrikes attributed to the so-called international coalition led by Washington, following agreements between the Saleh regime and the United States that granted the US the right to use Yemeni airspace at any time to carry out military strikes against Yemeni factions.
