By msnbc.com staff
Armed forces in Yemen claimed on Tuesday they had killed 43 suspected al-Qaida militants in two days of air raids, according to reports.
The BBC quoted the Associated Press as saying that government forces had taken the al-Qaida base of al-Rahha in the mountainous south of the country.
Arab news channel al-Jazeera said Yemen's forces claimed to have killed 43 militants.
Sanaa-based journalist Mohammed al-Qadhi told the channel that al-Qaida was exploiting instability in the country following months of political unrest.
"Al-Qaida (is) using the stalemate in the political process and the continued division of army and security forces ... to expand their activities in different southern provinces," al-Qadhi told the channel.
The raids come days after attack by militants on a nearby army base left 30 dead.
Al-Jazeera said al-Qaida had strengthened its hold on southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula country, seizing several towns during protests against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who left office in February 2012.
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