OSINT SUMMARY
Yemeni forces have taken on the last Al Qaeda stronghold in southern Abyan province according to a local military source.
The army forces supported by allied fighters seized the militants’ stronghold and to control of the center of al-Mahfad district, the last stronghold of al-Qaeda group in Abyan.
The military source also revealed that the Saudi-led warplanes carried out airstrikes against al-Qaeda positions in al-Mahfad killing unspecified number of militants.
Yemen plunged into civil war in late 2014 after Houthi rebels attacked and overran Yemeni capital, Sanaa. The rebels also raided other forcing President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and his Saudi-backed government to temporarily flee to Riyadh.
Al Qaeda's branch in Somalia, Al-Shabaab is also struggling after suffering blow after blow from SNA and AMISOM troops, dislodging it from key strongolds in central and southern Somalia.
