Sanaa, Yemen: Yemeni soldiers have regained control of an al Qaeda stronghold in the south of Shabwa province, Governor Ali al-Ahmadi said.
He said three days of shelling of al-Qaida positions on the outskirts of Azzan town and warnings to local tribal leaders of further escalation caused the militants to flee Saturday into the mountains and to camps in the desert of two nearby provinces, AP reported.
Al-Ahmadi did not anything about casualties.
Azzan had been used by the militant group as a media headquarters.
The army’s offensive against what is seen as the world’s most dangerous offshoot of al-Qaida has seen the recapture of several towns that the militants seized during last year’s political turmoil.
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