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December 16, 2014: Children killed in Yemen bombing

The area of Yemen where today's attack occurred (Photo: By Ibrahem Qasim - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

On December 16, 2014 AQAP detonated two car bombs in Radaa, a city in Yemen’s central province of al-Bayda, killing 25 people.

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October 29, 2010: Authorities foil transatlantic bombing plot

The type of cargo plane targeted in today's attack (Photo: Christian Junker | Photography on flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

On October 29, 2010 Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) tried to place explosive devices on UPS and Fedex cargo planes bound for the US