Feel good story of the day.

(LWJ) — Unmanned US Predators operated by the CIA and the Joint Special Operations command killed five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters during an airstrike in southern Yemen yesterday.

The strike took place in the Al Arqoub area east of Zinjibar, the embattled provincial capital of Abyan in southern Yemen, according to The Associated Press. Seven fighters were also wounded in the strike. The exact target of the strike has not been disclosed, and no senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leaders have been reported killed.

The US has stepped up counterterrorism operations, primarily through airstrikes, in Yemen, which hosts one of al Qaeda’s most effective affiliates. AQAP is incontrol of much of southern Yemen. While the government claimed it retook control of Zinjbar last month, the city is still contested. AQAP also controls the cities of Ja’ar, Shaqra, and Azzan.

The US government has decided to focus on a small core of AQAP operatives who focus on striking the US and are ignoring the wider AQAP insurgency in Yemen, according to a report in The Washington Post. The US would “fight AQAP only to prevent it from attacking the United States and its interests,” the newspaper reported. White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan put the number of AQAP fighters viewed as a direct threat to the US as “a couple of dozen, maybe.”