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| A suicide bombing in Yemen that appears to have targeted new police recruits at a security compound has killed 25 people, according to reports. | A suicide bombing in Yemen that appears to have targeted new police recruits at a security compound has killed 25 people, according to reports. |
| The attack, for which Islamic State (Isis) has claimed responsibility, happened on Sunday in the coastal city of Mukalla. | |
| Local medical and security sources told Reuters 25 people were killed and hospitals in the city were treating at least 25 further people wounded. | |
| The bomber reportedly detonated an explosive belt as recruits lined up at a police headquarters in the city. | |
| Al-Qaida carved out a swath of territory along the southern stretch of Yemen in the course of the civil war currently engulfing the country, but government troops backed by the United Arab Emirates have recently managed to halt their rise. | |
| In the past year, their militant rivals in Isis became enmeshed in the conflict after launching a series of suicide attacks against all parties in the war. | |
| After Yemen’s government was overthrown by the country’s Shia Houthi movement, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other gulf states launched military interventions in a bid to halt the rise of the movement, which they fear is backed by Iran. | |
| Both Al-Qaida and Isis view the gulf states’ actions as a western-backed attack on the country, and do not see the Houthis as true Muslims. |