US drone air raids kill 20 in central Yemen
At least twenty people have been killed in two assassination attacks by US unmanned aerial vehicles in central Yemen, where al-Qaeda militants have been locked in deadly clashes with fighters from the Shia Houthi Ansarullah movement. ● Tribal sources and witnesses said on Tuesday that the overnight drone raids targeted suspected al-Qaeda positions near the town of Rada’, situated 130 kilometers (85 miles) southeast of the capital, Sana’a. The US military launched a similar attack in the same area on October 26, killing at least a dozen people. On October 25, three people were killed when a US drone fired several missiles at "suspected al-Qaeda militants" in the Manasseh area of Yemen’s central province of al-Bayda.