Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 15 / Trend , E.Kosolapova /
The head of the media department of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and six other militants were killed in an air raid on militant outposts in Yemen, and gunmen retaliated by blowing up a gas export pipeline, Al Arabiya agency reported quoting Yemeni officials as saying on Saturday.
The Yemeni Defence Ministry said Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian national, was killed in a raid by Yemeni war planes on militant positions in Shabwa province in southern Yemen in late Friday
Anwar al-Awlaki's son is also among seven militants killed in air strikes targeting al-Qaeda in Yemen, a tribal source said.
On Sept. 30, Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Islamist cleric seen as a spiritual leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in an airstrike.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was formed in January 2009 through a merger between the Yemen and Saudi Arabia offshoots of the network.