On December 6 , Yemeni Major General and Aden governor , Jaafar Mohammed Saad , was killed along with six of his bodyguards in a suicide bombing . The attack was claimed by ISIL . In the same day , ISIL gunmen killed 4 Yemeni government fighters , and assassinated the judge Mohsen Alwan , who was investigated the USS Cole bombing . Also in the same day , unknown gunmen killed an energy official , and two security officers
suicide bombing
2015 Aden car bombing
Aden unrest (2015–present)