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Sixteen soldiers are killed and 18 more injured during a suicide car bombing in Mudiyah, Abyan Governorate, Yemen. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the attack.
2024-08-16

Four people are killed and three others are injured when a roadside bomb explodes near a military vehicle in Al Mahfad District, Abyan Governorate, Yemen.
2022-12-21

A suicide bombing kills at least 30 and injures 70 others in the southern city of Mukalla, Yemen. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for attack. [http:--www.china.org.cn-world-2016-05-15-content_38459778.htm (Xinhua)] [http:--in.reuters.com-article-yemen-security-blast-idINKCN0Y6089 (Reuters)] [http:--thechronicleherald.ca-world-1364724-suicide-bombing-kills-12-injures-17-in-southern-yemen (Canadian Press via "Chronicle-Herald")]date=August 2019
2016-05-15

Al-Qaeda militants take control of the southern Yemeni town of Ahwar in the Abyan Governorate.
2016-02-20

Al-Qaeda militants seize control of Zinjibar, capital of Yemen's southern Abyan Governorate, as well as the town of Jaʿār, following fierce clashes with pro-Hadi government forces.
2015-12-2

Yemen: A suspected Al Qaeda suicide bomber kills the commander of a local pro-army militia and injures six people in the town of Mudiyah in the Abyan province of Yemen.
2012-08-19

At least 18 deaths are reported by Yemen's defence ministry as a result of an army offensive intent on recapturing the capital of Abyan Governorate.
2012-04-20

A US drone airstrike kills 15 members of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in the Yemeni town of Lawdar in the Abyan Governorate.
2012-01-30

At least six Yemeni militants are killed following an air strike on a police station in the Abyan Governorate that the militants had overrun.
2011-07-14

The British ambassador to Yemen, Timothy Torlot, survives an attempted suicide bombing.
2010-04-26