Al-Qaeda Confirms Top Leader Killed in Suspected US Air Strike in Yemen

A general view shows the southeastern Yemen city of Mukalla, on April 29, 2014. Suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists killed 18 Yemeni soldiers in separate ambushes as the army launched a ground offensive against their remaining strongholds in the south, medical and security sources said. Fawaz Al-Haidari/AFP via Getty Images

Al-Qaeda confirmed on March 5 that Hamad bin Hamoud al-Tamimi, a top Saudi leader in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was killed in a suspected U.S. air strike in Yemen last month, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

Al-Tamimi was killed on Feb. 26 in a drone strike that targeted his residence in central Yemen, the American nonprofit that monitors Islamic extremist websites reported.