3 Al-Qaeda suspects killed in Yemen drone strike

Yemenis over look a drone attack on December 2016 [Qatar News Agency/Twitter]

The United States has killed three suspected Al-Qaeda fighters in Yemen, Reuters reported.

US drone strikes pounded Mudiyah district in Abyan province, targeting a moving motorcycle which the fighters were allegedly riding.

No information has emerged on the number of civilian casualties in the attack.

In March, President Donald Trump introduced a new legal code which allows the US military to wage six-month wars in designated “temporary battlefields” without congressional approval. This policy shift has enabled a greater number of targeted strikes, which have been called out as human rights violation.

Yemen’s branch of Al-Qaeda, known as Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has been targeted by drone strikes since 2002. Some 1,231 people have been killed in 255 confirmed drone strikes in Yemen.

Yemen is currently enduring a civil war which intensified in March 2015 when a Saudi-led coalition intervened upon request from President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

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