Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: The Unavoidable Change on the Ground
Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 17:05 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran See also Saturday's Bahrain, Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: 10,000s March Outside Manama
2128 GMT: Yemen. At least eight people have been killed by a US drone strike on two vehicles in Radaa in the centre of the country.
"Five were killed and eight injured and we are still investigating who these men are and in what way they were linked to al Qaeda," one official said.
Three women were also killed in the strike, a local tribal chief claimed. He said that the strike had targeted Abdulraouf al-Dahab, a local al-Qaeda leader, but that it failed to kill him.
Some tribesmen and military officials said that no fighters had been killed in the air strike, in which 14 civilians, including three women and three children, died. The officials said Sunday's airstrikes were based on faulty intelligence that the passengers were al-Qaeda members.