Yemen Intensifies Fight Against al Qaeda -- CNNSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemeni forces have laid siege to a southern town believed to be a militant stronghold in what amounts to an intensified effort to combat terrorism, a senior defense official said Thursday.
Human rights groups, meanwhile, have voiced concerns about thousands of people displaced in the escalation of fighting.
In an exclusive interview with CNN, Rashad al-Alimi, Yemen's deputy prime minister for defense and security, said Yemeni forces have surrounded the village of Hawta in southern Shabwa province, a stronghold for the offshoot terrorist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
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