Yemeni forces killed two Saudi members of Al-Qaeda Saturday as the army pressed its offensive against ’jihadists’ in the south, the defense ministry said.

Yemeni forces killed two Saudi members of Al-Qaeda Saturday as the army pressed its offensive against 'jihadists' in the south, the defense ministry said.

Army forces killed "two Saudi terrorists, Ibrahim Hamad and Ahmed al-Harbi," in the town of Azzan, in Shabwa province, the ministry said on its 26sep.net news website.

The army seized Azzan after launching its operation on April 29, but  continues to clash with some Al-Qaeda militants still holed up in houses there, witnesses said.  

The provinces of Abyan and Shabwa and the neighbouring central province of Baida have been the focus of the offensive.