(Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency)A U.S. air strike killed a former Guantanamo Bay detainee as part of the Trump administration’s expanding counterterrorism campaign in Yemen, the Pentagon said on Monday. The strike last Thursday was part of a stepped-up military campaign, including air strikes and expanded ground operations, that the United States has been conducting against AQAP since President Trump took office in January. One of the opening moves of that campaign was a controversial Jan. 29 raid that killed one Navy SEAL and, according to Yemeni accounts, scores of civilians. Some lawmakers have long opposed releasing detainees because of concerns about those men posing a security threat to the United States. Today, only 41 prisoners remain at Guantanamo.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2017 23:26 UTC