{"id":28902,"date":"2016-12-18T23:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=28902"},"modified":"2016-12-18T23:04:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:04:44","slug":"30-yemeni-soldiers-killed-in-suicide-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=28902","title":{"rendered":"30 Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"yemen-suicide-bombing\"International desk: A suicide bomber killed at least 30 Yemeni soldiers on Sunday when he detonated his explosives at a gathering in the southern city of Aden, military officials and medics said.<\/p>\n

Many others were wounded in the attack that targeted a crowd of soldiers gathered to collect their salaries at a base in northeastern Aden, the sources said.<\/p>\n

The attacker immersed himself among the soldiers at Al-Solban base, in Al-Arish district, a military official said.<\/p>\n

The attack comes eight days after a similar bombing in Aden claimed by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group killed 48 soldiers and wounded 29 others.<\/p>\n

Yemeni authorities have for months pressed a campaign against jihadists who remain active in the south and east of the war-torn country.<\/p>\n

IS and its jihadist rival al-Qaeda have taken advantage of a conflict between the government and Yemen's Huthi rebels, who control the capital Sanaa, to bolster their presence across much of the south.<\/p>\n

The two extremist groups have carried out a spate of attacks in Aden, Yemen's second city and headquarters of the internationally recognised government whose forces retook the port from the Huthis last year.<\/p>\n

But al-Qaeda has distanced itself from the December 10 attack, claiming that it tends to avoids “the shedding of any Muslim blood” while focusing on fighting the “Americans and their allies.”<\/p>\n

Al-Qaeda has long been the dominant jihadist force in Yemen, located next to oil-flush Saudi Arabia and key shipping lanes, but experts say IS is seeking to supplant its extremist rival.<\/p>\n

In August, an IS militant rammed his explosives-laden car into an Army recruiting centre in Aden, killing 71 people in the deadliest jihadist attack on the city in over a year.<\/p>\n

A Saudi-led coalition has since March 2015 supported loyalist forces fighting the Huthis.<\/p>\n

The Arab coalition intervened after Huthi rebels allied with troops loyal to Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh seized the capital Sanaa and overran other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

The Yemen war has killed more than 7,000 people, about half of them civilians.AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International desk: A suicide bomber killed at least 30 Yemeni soldiers on Sunday when he detonated his explosives at a gathering in the southern city of Aden, military officials and medics said. Many others were wounded in the attack that targeted a crowd of soldiers gathered to collect their salaries at a base in northeastern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n