Editing Terrorism in Yemen (section)

===2014 airstrikes===
On March 3, 2014, an airstrike believed carried out by an American drone killed three suspected AQAP members. Mujahid Gaber Saleh al Shabwani, one of Yemen's 25 most-wanted AQAP operatives, was thought to have been one of those killed.<ref>[[Bill Roggio]]: [http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/03/us_targets_aqap_comm.php US kills 3 AQAP operatives in Yemen drone strike] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219232637/https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/03/us_targets_aqap_comm.php |date=December 19, 2021 }}, March 3, 2014</ref>  According to a statement released by the Yemeni Interior Ministry, on April 20–21 three US drone strikes killed at least two dozen suspected AQAP members and destroyed one of the group's training camps in southern Yemen. Five civilians were wounded and three killed in the attack.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Schmitt|first1=Eric|title=U.S. Drones and Yemeni Forces Kill Qaeda-Linked Fighters, Officials Say|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/world/middleeast/us-drones-and-yemeni-forces-kill-qaeda-linked-fighters-officials-say.html?_r=0|access-date=June 16, 2014|agency=The New York Times|date=April 21, 2014|archive-date=September 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909184318/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/22/world/middleeast/us-drones-and-yemeni-forces-kill-qaeda-linked-fighters-officials-say.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref> A June 13 suspected US drone strike targeted a car in the Mafraq al-Saeed region of Shabwah province, killing the five alleged AQAP operatives inside.<ref>{{cite news|title=Five killed in Yemen drone strike|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/drone-strike-kills-armed-fighters-yemen-2014614141848870796.html|access-date=June 16, 2014|agency=Al Jazeera|date=June 14, 2014|archive-date=August 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801073855/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/drone-strike-kills-armed-fighters-yemen-2014614141848870796.html|url-status=live}}</ref>