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Yemen's al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — considered to be the terror network's most dangerous branch — is urging for holy war in a new edition of its online English-language magazine.

The edition appeared on militant websites Thursday after an almost nine month interval.

The magazine's former editor, American Samir Khan, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen, together with the U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

The magazine's new editor, Yahia Ibrahim, praised the two slain al Qaeda figures as a "team whose martyrdom inspires" others.

The new edition includes excerpts from an interview with al Qaeda's American spokesman, Adam Gadahn, who uses the name "Azzam the American."

He urges militants to continue fighting America and other NATO members to destroy them economically and militarily.