AFP news agency reports 28 dead, including eight women.
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IS posted a statement online saying its Yemeni affiliate was behind the attack.
An Islamic State-claimed attack on a Shiite mosque in Kuwait killed at least 27 people on Friday.
People stand next to wreckage at the site of a vehicle bomb attack in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. So, it’s very most likely simply to step up what it’s already doing, and with the United States aid to carry out further attacks.
And it is still regarded as the network’s most risky branch by Washington, which has kept up a drone war against in Mukalla.
But analysts say ISIS is now clearly in the ascendant.
Iran-backed Huthi rebels have seized vast swathes of Yemen since launching an offensive in July 2014, forcing President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee the country.
Saudi-led air strikes targeting Houthi positions, which launched in March, have had a devastating impact on civilians.
Since early 2015, Yemen has been seeing violence sparked by fighting between government forces and Houthi militants.
The Houthis seem however determined to continue fighting as Luqman warned that the missile attack “is another message to the forces of oppression” that have increased “their criminal air raids against our country.” He promised “new surprises in the coming days.”
A number of ISIL cells are now operate in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Yemen and other territories across the Middle East and North Africa.
“We re not aware of anything”.
Two battalions of the Republican Guard and special forces supporting Saleh were moving to Sanaa and their northern stronghold of Saada near the Saudi border, they said. Earlier, an Al Jazeera source confirmed the attack, and reported that at least one person – an employee at the refinery – was killed.
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Meanwhile, five pro-government fighters and two civilians were killed in clashes rocking Aden on Saturday, medics and militia sources loyal to Hadi said. Another 216 people were wounded. AQAP also knows full well that the Shia Houthis are being overstretched and while they fear the growing rise of ISIS, given internal Takfiri butchering in Syria, at the moment AQAP can consolidate based on the intrigues of the Saudi Arabia led coalition.
