Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has taken credit for an assault on a military base near Yemen's southern port city of Aden that killed at least 10 soldiers, allegedly to avenge government attacks in the area.
AQAP claimed the double suicide bombing and military assault on the Solaban military base near Aden's international airport on the Telegram messaging app according to US-based terrorist-tracking group SITE Intelligence.
In Wednesday's attack, two suicide bombers blew themselves up in explosives-rigged cars and AQAP militants then stormed the base and battled troops backed by Apache helicopters for several hours before government forces recaptured the base, killing a number of jihadists.
Yemen has been at war since September 2014, when Iran-backed Shia Houthi rebels and their allies drove the government out of the capital Sanaa and much of the country's north.
AQAP has exploited the chaos to expand areas under its control over the past year and recruit more followers and has seized swathes of southern and eastern Yemen.
The Islamic State jihadist group has also launched several mass-casualty attacks on security forces in Yemen and claimed a wave of suicide bombings that killed 38 government troops in the southern port city of Mukalla.
The conflict has killed more than 6,400 people in the impoverished country - about half of them civilians, according to the United Nations.
Houthi rebels controlled Aden, the main city in southern Yemen, for months before government forces backed by a Saudi-led Arab coalition pushed them back in July.
