A US drone strike killed five Al Qaeda militants in the southeastern stronghold of the terrorist group in Mukalla, security sources said Thursday.

The drone targeted a car carrying the five operatives, destroying it and killing all inside" late on Wednesday, the sources added.

Al Qaeda has taken advantage of the Saudi-US war on Yemen to seize Mukalla, capital of the vast desert province of Hadramawt.

The US carries out drone attacks over Yemen to target Qaeda group and in June its leader in Yemen, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, had been killed in a drone strike.
Source: MENA