<p>Aden: A suicide bomber killed 12 <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/yemen">Yemeni</a> soldiers in a military post in the southern province of Abyan on Friday morning, authorities said.</p><p>The attacker "drove a booby-trapped car into a site for the security forces," in the Mudiyah district, Mohamed al-Naqib, a spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council, said.</p>.Two ships report blasts in Red Sea off Yemen, maritime security agencies say.<p>No group immediately claimed responsibility, but militants linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have stepped up attacks on military facilities in Yemen.</p><p>Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has used a nine-year conflict between the Iran-aligned Houthi group and a Saudi-backed coalition to bolster its influence in a country that shares a border with Saudi Arabia and sits near major shipping lanes.</p><p>The Southern Transitional Council - which is allied with the Saudi coalition and controls large parts of the south which it wants to secede - has stepped up offensives against al-Qaeda elements in Abyan over the past year.</p><p>AQAP has survived years of attempted crackdowns by the US military, the coalition and the Houthis, taking advantage of Yemen's mayhem, tribal sympathies and the large stretches of empty territory.</p>
<p>Aden: A suicide bomber killed 12 <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/yemen">Yemeni</a> soldiers in a military post in the southern province of Abyan on Friday morning, authorities said.</p><p>The attacker "drove a booby-trapped car into a site for the security forces," in the Mudiyah district, Mohamed al-Naqib, a spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council, said.</p>.Two ships report blasts in Red Sea off Yemen, maritime security agencies say.<p>No group immediately claimed responsibility, but militants linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have stepped up attacks on military facilities in Yemen.</p><p>Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has used a nine-year conflict between the Iran-aligned Houthi group and a Saudi-backed coalition to bolster its influence in a country that shares a border with Saudi Arabia and sits near major shipping lanes.</p><p>The Southern Transitional Council - which is allied with the Saudi coalition and controls large parts of the south which it wants to secede - has stepped up offensives against al-Qaeda elements in Abyan over the past year.</p><p>AQAP has survived years of attempted crackdowns by the US military, the coalition and the Houthis, taking advantage of Yemen's mayhem, tribal sympathies and the large stretches of empty territory.</p>