What the records say
- When
- 27 May 2011 – 12 Jun 2012
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 13.13° N, 45.38° E
- Description
- 2011 battle
Battle of Zinjibar (2011–2012)
Military confrontation in Yemen
The battle of Zinjibar was fought between Yemeni government forces and the Islamist militant group Ansar al-Sharia in and around Zinjibar, the provincial capital of Abyan governorate. As the state was preoccupied with the Yemeni revolution, the resultant security vacuum in southern Yemen was capitalized on by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which used a local insurgent front in Ansar al-Sharia to seize terr…
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