Four separate airstrikes killed at least seven suspected al-Qaeda elements in Yemen on Thursday (March 2nd), AFP reported.
A dawn strike targeted the home of a known al-Qaeda element in the Yashbum Valley in the southern province of Shabwa, a provincial security official said.
Four suspected militants who had been standing outside the house were killed, he said.
A second strike, on al-Qayfa in Baida province, further north, killed three suspected al-Qaeda elements, a local official and a tribal chief said.
A third strike targeted extremists in the Sawmaa district of the province, the local official said.
And a fourth targeted an al-Qaeda position east of Shaqra in the southern province of Abyan, a security source said. Al-Qaeda briefly overran Shaqra early last month.
There was no immediate word of any casualties in the Sawmaa and Shaqra strikes.