About 25.000 Yemeni troops take part in a large-scale military campaign against Al-Qaeda in some towns of Abyan governorate, military sources said.
According to Al-Masdar Online, about eight brigades of the Southern Military Region are fighting al-Qaeda with the aim of recapturing some towns controlled by the terrorist group.
The brigades started on Saturday its military campaign against Zinjibar and Jaar, two town Al-Qaeda took control on them one year ago, the sources reiterated.
The military carries out a plan prepared by Yemeni and American experts, and Yemen's air and marine forces take part in the campaign, the sources pointed out.
They said that President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi approved the military plan that is under the control of senior military commanders including Minister of Defense Mohammad Nasser Ahmed.
The sources affirmed the military advanced on two fronts amid air cover in fighting that killed six soldiers in two days, affirming that military units attacked Jaar from the west and that the troops could reach some outskirts of the town.
Yemen President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi vowed early of May that he will defeat Al-Qaeda. However, Al-Qaeda attacked military positions hours after his address, killed and captured dozens of Yemeni troops.
Yemen's Chief of Staff Ahmed Ali Al-Ashwal met on Sunday with chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama, John Brennan. According to the military-run 26 September, both officials discussed mutual relationships and cooperation's between the Yemeni and US militaries, in particular counter-terrorism.
Sources had told Yemen Post that the United States sent nearly 45 counter-terror trainers to Yemen this week in an effort to strengthen the Yemeni government’s ability to fight al-Qaeda.
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