“A wanted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader who was involved in last year’s plot that forced the US to close more than a dozen diplomatic facilities across the world has been been killed in the yesterday’s US drone strike in central Yemen. AQAP’s emir for the central province of Baydah, where the jihadist group is battling encroaching Houthi rebels, was also killed in the same airstrike. “

Source: Wanted AQAP leader involved in embassies plot, provincial emir killed in US drone strike – The Long War Journal