DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The leader of Yemen’s branch of al-Qaeda is dead, the terrorist group announced late Sunday, without giving details.
Khalid al-Batarfi had a $5 million bounty on his head from the U.S. government over leading the group, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, through years that saw him imprisoned, freed in a jailbreak, and governing forces in Yemen amid that country’s grinding war.
