Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said it would avenge the deaths of those killed in the Dec. 17 and Dec. airstrikes that reportedly killed more than 64 al Qaeda fighters. “We will not let Muslim women and children’s blood be spilled without taking revenge,” the group said in a statement released in the Internet.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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