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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says an American airstrike in Yemen has killed a top commander for the al-Qaida affiliate there and two of his associates. U.S. Central Command says the strike in Shabwa province killed Abu Khattab al Awlaqi, the emir of al-Qaida in the Arabian ...
... new here is that it turned out that Transoceanic and Mr. Darden were also working on secret contracts involving shipping similar types of materials into Yemen for the military, specifically for the very specialized special operations forces, the commandos, who are operating in Yemen today. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: And just for ...
... a food shortage. Well, the WHO, the World Health Organization, estimates that the cholera epidemic itself will probably infect some 200,000 to 300,000 Yemenis. Right now, the count is about 14,000 and about 200 to 300 people have died. UNICEF estimates 70 percent of all Yemenis are ...
Health workers recently fanned across Yemen to vaccinate millions of children against polio, one of the disease risks in a country immersed in conflict. In Yemen, forces loyal to the internationally backed Yemeni government are battling Houthi rebels and their supporters. The conflict is making the already poor country even ...
... raid on the group in Yemen that killed Navy SEAL Ryan Owens and several dozen Yemenis. For more analysis of the U.S. role in Yemen, I am joined from Washington by Gordon Lubold, a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal". So, why this sudden interest in Yemen? GORDON LUBOLD ...
What level of planning did the Obama administration take on ahead of a deadly U.S. military raid in Yemen carried out under President Trump? Hari Sreenivasan talks to former Defense Department official Andrew Exum and Colin Kahl, former national security advisor to the vice president, two men with intimate knowledge of the Obama administration’s process...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: More than a month after a controversial special operations raid was launched on a moonless night in Yemen, questions persist about how that mission was authorized, what it accomplished, and how it's been explained by the White House and by the president. Margaret Warner begins our ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: President Trump said he followed the advice of his generals and defense secretary in ordering a U.S. military raid in Yemen that left a Navy SEAL dead. He was asked about it in his FOX News interview. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ...
A Yemeni child receives a polio vaccination Feb. 20 during an immunization campaign at a health center in the capital of Sanaa.
SANAA, Yemen — The United Nations refugee agency said Friday that tens of thousands of people have been displaced amid the latest escalation of fighting along Yemen's western coastline. The stark warning came as the leader of Yemen's Shiite rebels announced that his forces have built drones and missiles ...
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