Sanaa: At least three al-Qaeda militants including two Saudis were killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in the northern Yemeni province of Saada, media reported on Sunday.
According to a Yemini tribal source, separate drone strikes in Saada targeted Wadi al-Abu Jabara, an Al-Qaeda bastion some 250 kilometers north of the Yemeni capital, killing three people.
The United States is the only country that operates drones in the region.
U.S. drones that are deployed in the region have backed Yemeni forces in combating militants of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the name given to the group’s Yemen branch, considered by Washington to be the most active and deadly.
 They took advantage of the weakness of Yemen’s central government during an uprising last year against now ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh, seizing large swathes of territory across the south.
But after a month-long offensive in May launched by Yemeni troops, most militants fled to the more lawless desert regions of the east.
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