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Shuqrah (Arabic: شُقْرَة), also Shaqrāʾ (Arabic: شَقْرَاء) or Shuqrāʾ (Arabic: شُقْرَاء), is a
coastal town in
southern Yemen. It was the
capital of the...
- the
Battle of Zinjibar. In
addition to Zinjibar, the
towns of Jaʿār and
Shuqrah were
firmly under the
control of the Islamists. In
early May 2012 the Yemeni...
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include the
namesake Aden in Yemen.
Other Yemeni cities are Zinjibar,
Shuqrah, Ahwar, Balhaf, Mukalla, Ash-Shihr, al-Hami, Hadibu, and Qulensya. On the...
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militants away
after heavy clashes in and
around both towns. The city of
Shuqrah fell on 15 June, and
militants retreated towards neighboring Shabwah Governorate...
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Federation of
South Arabia, in 1963. The
capital of the
Fadhlis was
Shuqrah,
located on the
coast of the Gulf of Aden,
until 1962, when the administrative...
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operation called "Arrows of the East" in the
Abyan governorate,
entering Shuqrah early the next day. The
separatists officially claimed that they were clearing...
- to Hadi. On 27 March,
Houthi and
allied army
forces seized the city of
Shuqrah on the
Arabian Sea. The
takeover gave them
control of all land entries...
- Meanwhile, in
neighbouring Shabwah,
Ansar al-Sharia
seized the town of
Shuqrah in
August 2011. In
November 2011,
Saleh reached an
agreement with the Gulf...
- Sultanate,
although the
royal residence remained at the
former capital of
Shuqrah. At the time of the 2004 census, Zinjibar's po****tion
numbered 19,879...
- AQAP
attacked a
checkpoint in
Shuqrah and Lawdar. In Lawdar, they
killed 5
Hizam troops and one civilian, and in
Shuqrah, they
killed 6
Hizam troops and...
