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... the Washington Post.A defense official, speaking anonymously, told the Washington Post the decision was largely based on political advantages to be made with the Yemeni government."We haven't been comfortable with Yemen's track record on Guantanamo detainees," the official said, in reference to some ten other Yemeni ...
... the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, has struggled to oust al-Qaida-linked Islamic militants, often to the frustration of U.S. counterterrorism officials. Yemen became a top security concern for the U.S. after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole at a Yemeni port in 2000.
... Yemen is bin Laden's ancestral homeland and is considered to house many al-Qaida supporters. In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., Yemen committed itself to joining the war on terrorism and has permitted American forces to enter the country and train its military.
Amid chants of "Death to America!" during a second day of anti-war protests in Yemen, two people were shot dead and several others injured when police and activists clashed when an angry crowd of some 3,000 of the estimated 30,000 protestors attempted to storm the U.S ...
... to a Yemeni group unrelated to the Palestinian movement also called Islamic Jihad. The U.S. State Department has repeatedly warned Americans about traveling to Yemen saying the security threat remains "high." The central government in Yemen is weak in many tribal areas and Muslim militants have found refuge in ...
Yemen had protested the seizure, saying that it paid for the weapons and intended them to be used by its armed forces. "The shipment is part of contracts signed some time ago. It belongs to the Yemeni government and its army and meant for defensive purposes," Yemeni Foreign Minister Abubakr ...
... national resources," the paper said, according to Reuters reports. It added that some of the militants were non-Yemenis, who had "shown no respect for Yemen's hospitality... because of their involvement in destructive activities." In Washington, the U.S. praised the resolve of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. "It ...
... Florida Rep. Brian Mast, the committee chairman, said Congress never voted on a war powers resolution when the U.S. attacked Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen in 2024 while Democrat Joe Biden was president.“When Joe Biden was responding to merchant marine vessels being attacked, it was OK. No war ...
... is fertilizers and related raw materials, and we need to track the vessels and report. This is not rocket science. We have done this in Yemen. We have done this in Gaza. We have done this on the Black Sea grain initiative. It's something that my team is already ...
... out of the Gaza Strip. Lebanon's Hezbollah, the strongest such group, is still battling Israel, fighting that Israel says will continue despite the ceasefire. Yemen's Houthi rebels, targeted by Israeli and U.S. airstrikes in recent years, only fired on Israel a few times during the war and ...
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