Al-Qaeda terrorists overrun town in Yemen

Members of the al-Qaeda terrorist group have reportedly wrested control of a town in Yemen’s southern province of Shabwah as Saudi Arabia presses ahead with its atrocious military aggression against the crisis-hit country.

Al-Qaeda militants seized control of the town of Azan, located 550 kilometers (341 miles) southeast of the capital, Sana’a, on Monday without much resistance from the militiamen loyal to fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi there, Arabic-language Yemen Press news website reported.

The report added that al-Qaeda extremists have set up a number of checkpoints across the town, and overrun several government buildings.

The development came on the same day that Saudi military aircraft carried out an aerial strike against a school in the Mustaba district of the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah. There were no immediate reports of casualties and the extent of damage inflicted.

Saudi warplanes also struck al-Mafraq district of Yemen’s northern province of al-Jawf, but there were no reports of casualties.

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