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Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: YEMT182)
A single local-language Twitter source, @wn4YYsr1zvokcHx, asserted that a US drone strike had killed seven AQAP militants travelling to Shabwa, on March 22nd 2019. No other known sources reported the strike, and there was no known indication of civilian harm.
In a later press release and in comments to New America, US Central Command stated that six airstrikes were conducted in March 2019, though all were in Bayda government, and after March 25th.
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Reports of the incident mention the Ma’rib (مارب) governorate, for which the generic coordinates are: 15.508089, 45.562719. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Reports of the incident mention the Ma’rib (مارب) governorate.
Imagery: Google Earth