US hits al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen

WASHINGTON

The U.S. military has struck an al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

“The camp was located in the mountains, and was being used by more than 70 AQAP [al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula] terrorists,” spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement.

Cook said the military was still assessing the results of the strike but noted the initial assessment that dozens of the AQAP members had been killed.

Meanwhile, a Yemeni medical source said 26 al-Qaeda members were killed and 27 others were injured in the strike.

Tuesday’s strike came a week after a U.S. aircraft conducted a similar operation on the al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia, in which the American military claimed to have killed more than 150 of its members.