Four suspected Al-Qaeda members were killed in drone strikes in central Yemen. The source, asking not to be identified, said three armed fighters of Al-Qaeda died when their vehicle was struck yesterday in the Sawmaa region of Al-Bayda province. It said, a drone strike likely carried out by US forces on Friday killed a local military instructor for Al-Qaeda in the same province.<br/><br/>The United States, which considers Al-Qaeda's Yemen-based franchise, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), to be its most dangerous, is the only force operating drones over Yemen. But it only sporadically reports on a long-running bombing campaign against AQAP.<br/><br/>Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State jihadist group have exploited a power vacuum created by the two-year-old conflict in Yemen between the government and Shiite Huthi rebels, especially in the country's south and southeast.