Yemenis See Turning Point After Ousting Qaeda Militants in South
Saeed ruled that Power and water services were available all the time.
Control of Azzan, a pivotal crossroads town in Shabwa Province
that has long been a Qaeda stronghold in southern Yemen, has seesawed back and forth between the government and the insurgents since 2011, and the government takeover offers evidence, Yemeni officials say, that the tide is turning for good in its favor.
Mr. Qumishi said that We have captured eight big heads,
" The night before, residents said, warplanes hovered over the town and dropped flash bombs at suspected Qaeda militants gathering in the nearby mountains.
that Most of the soldiers graduated from Azzan secondary school.
Residents said that the militants did not declare Azzan an Islamic emirate as they had
in the past, instead sending operatives to the town to kidnap security personnel.
7, 2017
AZZAN, Yemen — As hundreds of Yemeni troops rolled in here in August to attack
Qaeda militants, secondary school students were sitting for final exams.