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... terrorism operations in Yemen will continue. Under President Hadi, and his predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the US was able to conduct extensive counter operations in Yemen. Most notably, they have launched dozens of sometimes controversial drone attacks against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - the Yemen based branch of the ...
... forcing President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to resign. The Houthi group, which formed in 1992, has gradually increased its influence from its base in northern Yemen by taking over other cities and towns. As part of the minority Shiite Muslim community, they have claimed to be marginalized and persecuted. Yemen ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: In other news of the day: The U.S. Embassy in Yemen closed to the public as unrest roiled the Arab nation. Street protests stretched into a second week in the capital city, Sanaa. Demonstrators are angry over a power grab by Shiite rebels that prompted the ...
NEW DELHI -- President Barack Obama says the political vacuum in Yemen hasn't affected U.S. counterterrorism operations inside the Middle Eastern country. He says that news reports to the contrary are inaccurate, and he says the U.S. continues to pursue terrorist targets inside Yemen. Yemen was thrown into ...
... it an approach "that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years." Gwen Ifill spoke with Gregory Johnsen, author of "The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia" about the roots of Yemen's “slow-motion” collapse and what it means for Western counterterrorism ...
... Houthis themselves are very much a local Yemeni group. They have grievances that stretch back to the 1960s, in which the former religious ruler of Yemen was overthrown. There have been six separate wars that have been fought between the Yemeni government and the Houthis up in the north in ...
... two-thirds of the remaining 122 detainees are from Yemen, including 47 of the 54 who have been approved for transfer. After languishing since 2010, Yemenis have started to move out of Guantanamo in the past two months. A dozen Yemenis have been sent to third countries since November, including ...
Yemen President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi resigned his post to parliament on Thursday amid a standoff with Yemen's Houthi movement. According to the Associated Press, Hadi, a U.S. ally against his country's al-Qaida group, resigned after continued pressure to concede further political power to the Houthi ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: The ongoing conflict in Yemen intensified today. The country's been a stronghold for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the most active and dangerous branches of the Islamic terror network. Today, violence rocked the country. Gunfire and explosions erupted in Yemen's capital city ...
... jihad, they go. Many more than their numbers would suggest went to Afghanistan. Then, what you had was the formation within Yemen of Saudi and Yemeni branches. They combined to create this al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The Saudis are very tough on people like that. The Yemenis do ...
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