A senior leader of Al-Qaeda and another member of the Al-Qaeda’s branch were killed by a suspected U.S. drone strike in central Yemen on February 26, according to Al-Qaida’s arm in the Arabian Peninsula.
The group said in a statement on Monday that the suspected U.S. drone strike targeted Hamad bin Hamoud Al-Tamimi, also known as Abdel Aziz Al-Adnani, the group’s media chief, at his home in the central Marib province, the capital city of Marib Governorate in Yemen, on February 26.
The group announced the news in a five-page obituary. Reportedly, another al-Qaida member was also killed on February 26. Reportedly, the attack targeted a house where al-Tamimi was living in the Wadi Ubaydah area in Yemen.
According to militant sources, Hamad bin Hamoud Al-Tamimi spent nearly four years in prison in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 2013, he travelled to Yemen. He was the head of AQAP’s leadership council.
