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Yemeni authorities have arrested eight suspected IS group extremists implicated in a spate of attacks targeting security personnel in second city Aden this year, police said. Police in the southern port city, headquarters of Yemen’s internationally recognised government, also seized silenced pistols and letters from IS leaders in Iraq and Syria, a statement said late on Monday.
There have been a spate of deadly gun attacks in Aden this year as government forces have struggled to restore security in the city after driving out Shiite rebels and their allies in July 2015. The insecurity prompted the cabinet to move to neighbouring Saudi Arabia last year only returning in September.
IS and its extremist rival Al-Qaeda have taken advantage of the conflict to bolster their presence across much of the south.