article_snippet: The state news agency quoted deputy foreign minister Hossein AmirAbdollahian as saying: 'A special team from the Intelligence Ministry was able to .
article_snippet: complex and difficult operations in a very particular part of .
article_snippet: Last month Al Qaeda-linked fighters seized an army base in  the southern province of Shabwa which had held up to 2,000 government soldiers.
article_snippet: Al Qaeda-linked fighters said on Twitter that Al Qaeda-linked fighters had set off a suicide bomb at the gate, took control of three guard towers and a tank and imprisoned some of the troops.