But soon, a military operation unfolded that left 14 Al Qaeda fighters dead and took the lives of at least 11 women and children and one U.S. commando. The operation last Sunday on the village of Yakla by SEAL Team 6 was to showcase the Trump administration’s decisiveness in the fight against Al Qaeda. “I was right beside the house preparing a place to go to sleep,” Jawfi said in a phone interview Friday. Anybody leaving the house was hit and killed … and people in here have nothing but Kalashnikovs. — Saleh Mohsen Amery, raid survivorAnother survivor of the raid, Saleh Mohsen Amery, said his house was attacked and his daughter killed.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 04, 2017 22:54 UTC