SANA'A: Yemen military sources within the past hour have announced that al-Qaeda militants attacked a military camp in Khor al-Badr in the southern territories, stressing that the Islamists were now using mortar shells and heavy artillery against the armed forces. So far no casualties had been reported in the hour-long fighting. This new strike occurred only hours after Ansar al-Sharia, an offshoot of AQAP in the region shelled Aden prison to free some of its men who were detained within its walls. Over recent days, terrorist activities in and around Aden have dramatically increased; with fear that al-Qaeda will soon seize control of the city as it did Zinjibar, the regional capital of neighboring Abyan.
