Demonstrators took to the streets and demanded the creation of a provisional body to guide and shape the country's political transition.
Twenty-one members of Al-Qaeda and ten Yemeni soldiers have been killed in the Abyan province, Yemen, where the fight has struck on Saturday, State News Agency of Yemen informed.
Clashes between suspected militants and security forces have broken out in Lawdar and Zinjibar, cities in Abyan - a militant bastion with a presence of wing of the Al-Qaeda Yemen, reported SABA, quoting a military official.
Eighteen members of Al-Qaeda and nine soldiers were killed in Zinjibar and three militants and a soldier were killed in Lowdar, the report said. Dozens of people were injured.
"The heroes of the army and the security forces in the province of Abyan caused terrorist elements Al Qaeda heavy losses in lives and material after fierce clashes with the elements that began in the early hours of the morning and lasted several hours and ended with the murder of several of them and injuring many others", SABA reported.
An officer, Yemeni security, who has asked not be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that the Government of the Yemen carried out air strikes on positions in Lawdar believed to be held by Al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula.
The Government forces have been fighting Islamic militants who took the city of Zinjibar. We heard explosions and heavy gunfire through the city, and aircraft were seen flying overhead and carrying out air strikes, witnesses and residents said.
The military official quoted by SABA said that you forces military directed Yemeni a warehouse used by militants to store weapons and vehicles used by the combatants. The official said that the troops are working to locate the fighters of Al-Qaeda and "clean up the pockets and hiding places where the terrorists are present".
Yemen has been consumed with riots for months as demonstrators demanding the end of the State of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In recent weeks, the Government troops have fought the tribal forces anti-Government militant Islamic, including Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula.
An Alliance of six Arab Nations in the Gulf, the Gulf Cooperation Council, has tried to negotiate a settlement of Government that would lead to the departure of Saleh, but that effort has so far been unsuccessful.
The demonstrations continued on Saturday as thousands of anti-government demonstrators took to the streets in Sana'a, Ta'iz and Ibb Hodeidah, said witnesses.
Witnesses said the demonstrators on Saturday called for the Vice President create a provisional Transitional Council to help the fashion of a political transition.
He accused the United States and the GCC to support the regime of Saleh and claimed the support of the youth revolution.
Anti-Government forces also criticized the opposition political parties and politicians to support the GCC agreement, which could lead to the departure of Saleh but give him immunity.
Khaled Al - Anesi, a prominent rights activist in Sanaa to, said that the United States and the international community should support the revolution of Yemen "as he did in Tunisia and Egypt if you want to Yemen to remain your partner in the future."
The chaos was intensified when Saleh and other senior officials were injured in an attack on June 3 in the mosque at the Presidential Palace.
Saleh and other senior officials wounded in the attack were to Saudi Arabia for treatment. A Government spokesman said Thursday Saleh was in good health and return to Yemen "in" days.Saad Abedine CNN contributed to this report.
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