OVER 30 TERRORISTS KILLED IN YEMEN: INTERIOR MINISTER

SANA'A, Jan. 24 (Saba) - About 30 terrorists of al-Qaeda have been
killed by security forces recently, Interior Minister Mutahar
al-Masri said Sunday.

In the conclusion of a training course for new police forces,
al-Masri said that the security authorities have been managed to
raid strongly al-Qaeda.

Many of al-Qaeda members have been apprehended and the others will
be hunted all over the country, the minister said.

"Yemen faces threes challenges, Houthi rebellion, southern movement
and al-Qaeda" he said, underlining that the security authorities in
Yemen are able to tackle them.

Yemen has been intensifying its crackdown on alleged hideouts of
al-Qaeda. Yemen's war against al-Qaeda resulted in killing many
leaders of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) including the
top regional leader of al-Qaeda Qassim Yahya Mahdi al-Raymi.

Interior Ministry has said that Yemen's war on terrorism and
al-Qaeda would continue almost daily to prevent al-Qaeda operations
against any national and foreign interests.

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