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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the waters off Yemen to beef up security and join other American ships that are prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen. Navy officials said Monday that the Roosevelt ...
... union has vowed to fight it, but, late today, the president issued a statement of support for the compromise. JUDY WOODRUFF: Al-Qaida militants in Yemen took over a major airport, seaport and oil terminal in the country's south today. Officials said the militants clashed with military forces outside ...
... Jeff Rathke, acting deputy spokesman for the State Department, told reporters on Thursday he did not have the number of U.S. citizens remaining in Yemen, but that the department is “monitoring the situation in Yemen closely because, of course, protecting American citizens is a top priority for us.” He ...
Watch an excerpt of the PBS NewsHour's interview with Secretary of State John Kerry on Iran’s actions in the region. A week after negotiating a deal on its nuclear program, Iran has sent naval ships to the Gulf of Aden, ratcheting up tensions with neighboring Yemen. U.S ...
... GWEN IFILL: In Saudi Arabia today, Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the U.S. will accelerate delivery of arms and intelligence, to boost the Saudis' 13-day-old bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen. Yemen's slide towards humanitarian disaster has seen airports and sea ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: The decision today by the 21 nations of the Arab League to create a joint military force because of the crisis in Yemen raises the question, why didn't the organization mobilize the same way to fight ISIS in Iraq? For more about this and for the ...
WASHINGTON -- A Defense Department official says U.S. forces rescued two Saudi airmen after they ejected from an F-15 fighter jet over waters south of Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is leading airstrikes against Iran-allied Houthi rebels. The official says a U.S. helicopter flew Thursday from neighboring Djibouti ...
... MARK SHIELDS: And it really does for president. It's a very personal choice. JUDY WOODRUFF: This is unfair to ask you both about this, Yemen, what's been going on. We have been covering it all week. We now see the Saudis involved there hitting these Shia rebels, the ...
As Saudi airstrikes against Houthi rebels enter their second day, Unicef has cautioned that a humanitarian crisis in Yemen could become reality within a year. According to Julien Harneis, Unicef’s spokesperson for the country, major progress in ensuring food security and access to health care risk being turned back ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: The chaos in Yemen has taken another dramatic turn, as neighboring Saudi Arabia entered the fight against rebels in that country with airstrikes. The operation began overnight, as Saudi jets flew from the Sunni kingdom's southern desert and bombarded military targets in the Yemeni capital of ...
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