Yemen Crisis: Yemen says 30 killed in Islamist clashes in south!

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Reuters – 1 hour 45 minutes ago.

ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen said its army killed 21 al Qaeda members on Saturday in a southern province whose main city was seized by Islamist militants during the country's bloody political crisis.

Nine Yemeni soldiers were killed in the fighting in Abyan province, whose capital Zinjibar fell to Islamist fighters last month, sparking fighting that has set nearly all its population to flight.

Oil giant Saudi Arabia and Western countries fear the chaos resulting from such clashes could give al Qaeda a foothold in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, which straddles oil export routes and has been a cornerstone of U.S. counter-terrorism strategy.

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