US drones “intermittently fired missiles at the mountains” of the Qifah area of Bayda governorate, on the evening of November 22nd 2017, residents told Gulf News. No other known sources reported strikes at that time, and there were no known reports of either civilian or militant casualties.

On the morning of November 23rd, local residents told Gulf News that US drones and fighter jets “from the Saudi-led coalition” had “launched heavy airstrikes… apparently targeting Daesh and Al Qaeda military camps or fugitive militants hiding there”. Given that this source specified US strikes alongside Saudi-led coalition actions, this event has been assessed by Airwars as a single-source claim of a US and/or Saudi action.

In an email to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, US Central Command declared that strikes had taken place in Bayda on November 19th, November 20th, and November 23rd – each accounted for in separate events – but did not declare US strikes on the evening of November 22nd. It is possible that an undeclared strike was conducted by the CIA.

Gulf News reported that recent US drone strikes in the area had “displaced residents and caused panic”. A local activist told Gulf News that a number of alleged US strikes had taken place in the area in the second half of November 2017, including “three separate air strikes” that had killed five civilians during the week of publication. As it appears that the article was updated on November 28th 2017, this report has been accommodated for in events USYEMTr120-C and USYEMTr122-C.

“The air strikes have caused great panic among civilians,” the activist told Gulf News. “The targeted areas have no functioning schools or hospitals.”

The local time of the incident is unknown.