As it became known RIA News, on Saturday, under the sanction of Donald Trump, American special forces with the participation drones and helicopters carried out the first full-scale operation under the new president to eliminate militants associated with the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. As a result, 14 terrorists were killed and "information was obtained that most likely gives an idea about the preparation of terrorist attacks in the future." One US soldier was killed and three were injured. A "hard landing" of the aircraft was reported near the site of the operation. As a result of the incident, the aircraft "lost the ability to fly and was deliberately destroyed on the spot."
In the course of a successful special operation against al-Qaida’s headquarters in the Arabian Peninsula, brave American troops destroyed some 14 militants and captured important intelligence information that would help the United States in preventing terrorist attacks against its citizens and people around the world.
- stated in the presidential statement.
France-Presse cites his own data: 16 civilians died, the 41 fighter was destroyed.
In Yemen, the armed conflict continues in 2014, in which, on the one hand, the Hussite rebels from the Shiite Ansar Alla movement and a part of the army loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and from the other side government forces and militias loyal to President Abd Rabb Mansur Hadi. The government from the air and on the ground is supported by the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
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