President Trump [6]'s first commando raid left dead the US-born 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki [7], the American al-Qaeda leader who was himself killed in a US strike five years ago. US special operations forces on Jan. 30 targeted the home of Abdulrauf al-Dhahab, said to be a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), in the remote Yemeni district of Yakla. The district is in the central province of al-Baydah, a focal point of US military operations over the past month. The Pentagon said 14 AQAP fighters were killed in the raid, as well as one soldier—said by media accounts to have been a member of SEAL Team 6 [8]. Warplanes struck Abdulrauf's home; then US troops descended from helicopters and clashed with local fighters. US helicopters destroyed other homes in the area as fighting intensified. (IANS [9], NBC [10], LWJ [11])
Anwar al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki [12] was killed in a US drone strike in October 2011.
