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Battle of Zinjibar
The
Battle of Zinjibar
was a battle during the
Yemeni Revolution
between forces loyal to
Yemeni
leader
Ali Abdullah Saleh
and Islamist militant forces, possibly including elements of
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
(AQAP), for control of the town of
Zinjibar
and its surroundings as part of the wider insurgency in the self-declared
Islamic Emirate of Abyan
. Many of the Islamist forces operating in
Abyan
province refer to themselves as
Ansar al-Sharia
("Partisans of
Sharia
").
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