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Nov 22, 2013

Pro-army tribesmen man a checkpoint on a road leading to Lawdar town in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan June 19, 2012. Al Qaeda-linked militants retreated from Lawdar last month after encountering stiff resistance from pro-army tribal fighters, who have arranged themselves into popular committees to defend their town against attempts by the militants to control it. Yemen's army recaptured the last al Qaeda stronghold in restive Abyan province on Friday in a major advance in its U.S.-backed offensive t — Pro-army tribesmen patrol a checkpoint on a road leading to Lawdar in the Yemeni province of Abyan, June 19, 2012. — REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

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A police trooper jumps over a barricade of sand bags, erected by tribal militants loyal to the powerful al-Ahmar family during last year's fighting with security forces, in Sanaa May 28, 2012. A military committee, set up under a Gulf Cooperation Council peace deal signed in Saudi Arabia in November, continued on Monday the breaking down of militant fortifications that have been set up in the Yemeni capital during protests against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: P

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A correspondent in Yemen

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Followers of Yemen's al-Houthi Shi'ite group ride in an open vehicle while carrying weapons to secure a road in the northwestern province of Saada, ahead of attending the funeral of the group's late founder al-Houthi Hussein Badr Eddin al-Huthi, June 4, 2013. The body of Huthi, who was killed in clashes with government forces in 2004, was released by Yemeni authorities nine years after his death following which DNA tests were carried out to determine his identity, local media reported. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sa

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