US airstrike kills top Al Qaeda militant in Yemen
A top Al Qaeda militant in the Arab Peninsula, who claimed responsibility for the attack on the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January, has reportedly been killed in a U.S. air strike in Yemen.
Site Intelligence, a U.S. militant monitoring group, said that a statement released by the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said that Nasser al-Ansi had been killed in April in the port city of Mukalla, the BBC reported.
However, no confirmation has been issued by the U.S.
Ansi had appeared in several AQAP videos in which the terror group had claimed that it was holding and had later killed American journalist Luke Somers.
The report said that Ansi's eldest son and other fighters were also killed in the air strike.