The Yemeni government claims it has killed Said al-Shehri, the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Reuters reports. Shehri, a Saudi, was killed along with six other militants in the remote Hadramout province in the country’s east, the government says.
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