{At least six troops killed and dozens wounded following two explosions in base adjoining Aden international airport.}<\/p>\n
At least six Yemeni soldiers have been killed and dozens wounded in a double car bomb attack at a military base in the southern city of Aden.<\/p>\n
The attackers detonated a car bomb near the entrance of the army base in the Khormaksar district adjoining Aden international airport, military sources said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The first explosion allowed the second vehicle to drive inside where it also blew up.<\/p>\n
The explosions were followed by gun battles between troops and about two dozen attackers, witnesses said. The base was sealed off by government forces sent as reinforcements.<\/p>\n
Yemen has been at war since September 2014, when Iran-backed Houthi rebels and their allies drove the government out of the capital Sanaa and much of the country’s north.<\/p>\n
The Houthis controlled Aden, the main city in southern Yemen, for months before government forces backed by a Saudi-led Arab coalition pushed them back in July.<\/p>\n
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has exploited the chaos to expand areas under its control and recruit more followers.<\/p>\n
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) has also launched several mass-casualty attacks on security forces.<\/p>\n
Late last month, fighters pledging allegiance to ISIL claimed responsibility for a wave of suicide bomb attacks that killed 38 government troops in the southern port city of Mukalla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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