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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

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

A suicide bombing at a police academy in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a kills at least 20 people.
2012-07-11

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

Air strikes kill 30 Al-Qaeda linked militants near Zinjibar in Yemen's Abyan Governorate with eight army soldiers killed in fighting.
2011-08-24

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