Yemeni air strike kills five suspected militants in south

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(removes garble in paragraph 3) SANAA/ADEN, May 13 (Reuters) - Five suspected al Qaeda militants were killed when Yemeni fighter planes targeted their vehicle in the southern province of Shabwa, military sources said, as part of a sustained army offensive against Islamist insurgents. Yemen is waging a U.S.-backed campaign to eliminate Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the global jihadi network's regional wing. Yemen is a U.S. strategic ally whose instability concerns neighbouring oil-exporting giant Saudi Arabia as well as Western nations worried that al Qaeda could use the weakly governed and impoverished country as a launchpad for international attacks. A ****** of air strikes, apparently carried chiefly by U.S. drones, killed some 65 militants in late April.

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