SANAA — On Sunday, May 25, Yemen’s security forces killed a senior al-Qaeda leader wanted for attacks on local and foreign targets in Sanaa, the Yemeni government said, after a raid near the capital in which at least four other militants died.

The government said in a statement that two officers also died when anti-terrorism units raided an al-Qaeda hideout and a car bomb-making facility in Bayt al-Adhari and Bani Hakam districts, in the Arhab region, and fought a gunbattle with its occupants. Two officers were also wounded.

Security forces also conducted two other separate raids in downtown Sanaa, the statement said, but gave no details.

The raids were part of an escalating campaign against militants responsible for a wave of attacks across the country.

The government statement, received by email, said one of the dead militants was Saleh al-Tais. The statement said was involved in the January killing of Ahmad Sharafeddin, a delegate at national reconciliation talks representing the Houthi group and a former dean of the law faculty at Sanaa University.

One of 25 people listed by the Interior Ministry’s most wanted list, Tais was the operational commander of AlQaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Sanaa. He had a 5 million riyal ($25,000) bounty for his capture, the statement said.