http://bit.ly/1zfNXza In Regards to Shutting Down the Drone Base, That's A Huge Win Against what has been going on here for a long while now. Yemen's Shiite rebels issued a call to arms too, to battle forces loyal to the country's embattled president, as U.S. troops were evacuating a southern air base crucial to America's drone strike program after al-Qaida militants seized a nearby city. The turmoil comes as Yemen battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the target of the drone program, and faces a purported affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group that claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings killing at least 137 people Friday. All these factors could push the Arab world's most impoverished country, united only in the 1990s, back toward civil war. "I hate to say this, but I'm hearing the loud and clear beating of the drums of war in Yemen," Mohammed al-Basha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, D.C., wrote on Twitter. The Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, swept into Yemen's capital, Sanaa, in September and now control it and nine of the country's 21 provinces. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a one-time prisoner of the Houthis in his own home, escaped last month and installed himself in Aden, declaring it the temporary capital amid the Houthi insurrection. http://yhoo.it/1BlfM7V
US Troops Evacuate Yemen Air Base That Is Crucial to Drone Strike Program
http://bit.ly/1zfNXza In Regards to Shutting Down the Drone Base, That's A Huge Win Against what has been going on here for a long while now. Yemen's Shiite rebels issued a call to arms too, to battle forces loyal to the country's embattled president, as U.S. troops were evacuating a southern air base crucial to America's drone strike program after al-Qaida militants seized a nearby city. The turmoil comes as Yemen battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the target of the drone program, and faces a purported affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group that claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings killing at least 137 people Friday. All these factors could push the Arab world's most impoverished country, united only in the 1990s, back toward civil war. "I hate to say this, but I'm hearing the loud and clear beating of the drums of war in Yemen," Mohammed al-Basha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, D.C., wrote on Twitter. The Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, swept into Yemen's capital, Sanaa, in September and now control it and nine of the country's 21 provinces. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a one-time prisoner of the Houthis in his own home, escaped last month and installed himself in Aden, declaring it the temporary capital amid the Houthi insurrection. http://yhoo.it/1BlfM7V
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment