In Yemen, a suicide bomber of the Islamic State group killed at least 52 soldiers in Aden, the latest in a string of deadly attacks against recruits in the country's second city. <br/><br/>A security official Abdel-Rahman al-Naqeeb told Associated Press that 63 people were also injured in the blast.The attacker targeted a crowd of servicemen who had gathered to collect their salaries near a base in northeastern Aden. <br/><br/>The attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who blended in among soldiers crowding outside the house of the<br/>head of special security forces in Aden, Colonel Nasser Sarea, in Al-Arish district, near Al-Sawlaban base.<br/><br/>The Islamic State group's Yemen-based affiliate claimed responsibility. The attack comes eight days after a similar bombing at Al-Sawlaban claimed by IS killed 48 soldiers and 29 others injured. <br/><br/>Washington regards Al-Qaeda's Yemen-based branch as its most dangerous and has kept up a long-running drone war against its commanders. The Yemen war has killed more than 7,000 people, about half of them civilians.

In Yemen, a suicide bomber of the Islamic State group killed at least 52 soldiers in Aden today, the latest in a string of deadly attacks against recruits in the country's second city. <br/><br/>A security official Abdel-Rahman al-Naqeeb told Associated Press that 63 people were also injured in the blast.The attacker targeted a crowd of servicemen who had gathered to collect their salaries near a base in northeastern Aden. <br/><br/>The attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who blended in among soldiers crowding outside the house of the<br/>head of special security forces in Aden, Colonel Nasser Sarea, in Al-Arish district, near Al-Sawlaban base.<br/><br/>The Islamic State group's Yemen-based affiliate claimed responsibility. The attack comes eight days after a similar bombing at Al-Sawlaban claimed by IS killed 48 soldiers and 29 others injured. <br/><br/>Washington regards Al-Qaeda's Yemen-based branch as its most dangerous and has kept up a long-running drone war against its commanders. The Yemen war has killed more than 7,000 people, about half of them civilians.