A suspected US drone strike has targeted a car carrying al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen, killing all five passengers, security officials said.
The attack took place in a mountainous area in al-Saied in southern Shabwa province.
One of those killed in the attack was a suspected al-Qaeda leader named Musaad al-Habashi, the officials said.
The US considers al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to be the group’s most dangerous branch world and has linked it to a number of botched or foiled attacks on the US homeland.