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Eight Yemeni troops and six militants were killed on Wednesday in an assault claimed by Al-Qaeda on a military base near the international airport of Yemen’s southern city of Aden, the military said.
Two suicide bombers blew up their cars, then militants stormed the Solaban base and fought with troops backed by Apache helicopters for several hours, a special forces statement said.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attack on the messaging app Telegram, according to the militant monitoring SITE Intelligence group, calling the attack revenge for government attacks elsewhere in southern Yemen.
Three coordinated Islamic State bomb attacks on Hadi loyalists killed 38 people in the coastal city of Mukalla in southern Yemen on June 27 as they were preparing to break their Ramadan fast.
A shaky ceasefire between Saudi-backed Hadi forces and the Houthis that began nearly three months ago has brought some respite from the war.
But clashes regularly flare on various battlefronts throughout Yemen.
The conflict has killed more than 10,000 people - about half of them civilians- and plunged the impoverished country into a humanitarian crisis.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
