Al-Qaeda kidnapped on Wednesday a Yemeni general in Abyan after the military launched strikes against strongholds of the terrorist organization and killed dozens of the organization's operatives, sources of the Yemeni Interior Ministry Said.
The Sources said the colonel Ahmed Jaafal, commander of the battalion 103, was kidnapped after Al-Qaeda militants set an ambush to his convey in a main road linking between Aden and the town of Mukairas.
The sources said the abduction came after Al-Qaeda sustained big loses due to the attacks carried out by the army that used on Tuesday heavy artilleries against Al-Qaeda's shelters.
Military sources said bloody confrontations had been continuing between the army and Al-Qaeda militants.
Separately, the Interior Ministry revealed that three car bombs planed to exploded government facilities in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.
Al-Qaida in Yemen claimed on Wednesday responsibility for a weekend suicide bombing that killed at least 25 people in southern. The group said the car bomb attack was a warning to the U.S. to stop meddling in Yemen's affairs.
It further said the attack came in response to U.S. war against Islamist forces in Yemen.
The newly-elected president had said during his inauguration on Feb. 24 that he will fight Al-Qaeda, and to bring back displaced people to their villages and towns.
"One of the most prominent tasks is the continuation of war against al-Qaeda as a religious and national duty, and to bring back displaced people to their villages and towns,” Hadi said.
However, Al-Qaeda attacked the presidential palace of Muklah of Hadhramout two hours after the address of Hadi before the parliament.