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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), also known as Ansar Al-Shariah, claimed responsibility on Wednesday evening for a remote-detonated car bomb which exploded outside the Iranian ambassador’s residence in Sana’a at approximately 9:00 a.m. One person was killed and 17 others were injured in the attack.
AQAP claimed responsibility on their Twitter account and posted photos of the scene following the attack.
Iran has denied conducting airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Iraq, Reuters reports, citing a senior Iranian official.
“Iran has never been involved in any air strikes against the Daesh targets in Iraq. Any cooperation in such strikes with America is also out of question for Iran,” the senior official told the news agency on condition of anonymity. The Islamic State, a radical Sunni group currently controlling large swathes of land in Iraq and Syria, is also known as Daesh.
A Libyan national army warplane Tuesday bombed an ammunition depot in an Islamist militants-controlled area, according to a military source.
The source told Xinhua that a MiG-21 fighter carried out an airstrike against an ammunition storage site in the town of Zuwarah, some 120 km west of capital Tripoli. There were no casualties.
Al-Shabaab militants from Somalia killed 36 quarry workers in northern Kenya on Tuesday, prompting Kenya’s president to announce a security shakeup, firing his interior minister and accepting the resignation of the national police chief.
President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed an opposition politician and retired army general, Joseph Nkaissery, as the new interior minister in charge of security.
Pro-Russian rebels standing guard near the airport in Donetsk
Ukraine’s military have said that its forces and separatist generals have agreed a temporary ceasefire around the airport in rebel-held Donetsk that has been the focus of fighting for months.
Residents around the airport said that a lull in the fighting that has been raging on a nearly-daily basis ensued shortly after the negotiations began.