Battle of Zinjibar

Quand

27 mai 2011 – 12 juin 2012

Type

Bataille

Coordonnées

13.13° N, 45.38° E

Description

2011 battle

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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