A suspected US drone strike in Yemen killed two Al-Qaeda militants and destroyed an arms cache on Sunday, a security official and witnesses said. The raid targeted a house in Wadi Abida, in the central province of Marib, where the two unnamed militants were killed, the official said, requesting anonymity. He said an arms cache in the house also exploded. Witnesses said an unmanned drone conducted the air raid, just like in most US air strikes that target Al-Qaeda suspects in the Arabian Peninsula nation, which is home to Al-Qaeda's most active branch.

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A suspected US drone strike in western Yemen has killed five Al-Qaeda militants, including a local chief, a security official and witnesses said on Thursday. The raid that took place late Wednesday in Dhamar province, killed Hamid Radman al-Manea, known as al-Radmi, and four of his guards, the official said in a statement carried by Saba state news agency. They were targeted as they headed to Radmi's house, the official said. Witnesses told AFP that two rockets hit the vehicle transporting the group.

Bombings in Iraq, including one against an MP's convoy, killed three people and wounded 18 on Wednesday, just days ahead of the country's first elections since US troops departed, officials said. In the deadliest attack, a car bomb exploded near an army checkpoint in Abu Ghraib, west of the capital, killing two people and wounding six, while another car bomb in the Jihad area of south Baghdad killed at least one person and wounded six, an interior ministry official and medical sources said.