Al Qaeda fighters captured the capital of a province in southern Yemen late on Friday, March 20, killing about 21 soldiers, before they were driven out by the army, local officials and residents told Reuters.
Al Qaeda terrorists kill 21 Yemen soldiers
The attack is coming hours after suicide bombers killed 137 people at a mosque in the country's capital city.
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The fighting came hours after suicide bombers killed 137 people in the national capital Sanaa, in coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls paths of Syria and Iraq.
Fighters from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were forced to withdraw late on Friday night from al-Houta after holding it for several hours, the officials and residents said.
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