The decision follows a series of attacks, claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in the capital of Sanaa which killed 142 people.
The Security Council is scheduled to meet on Sunday following a request from embattled Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi for an “urgent intervention.”
The U.S. State Department also said it stood with other members of the Security Council in supporting Hadi and urged Houthi rebels and allies to stop “violent incitement” against him, Reuters news agency reported.
Hadi has been holding court in the Southern city of Aden after fleeing house arrest in the capital Sanaa imposed by Houthi fighters who seized the presidential palace.[ alarabiya.net With AFP and Reuters]22/3/15
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The United States has evacuated its remaining personnel, including about 100 special operations forces, from Yemen because of the deteriorating security situation there, US officials said on Saturday...
ReplyDeleteThe US pullout, which came as the UN Security Council prepared to meet on Sunday on a request from embattled Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi for an "urgent intervention," marked a further setback in US counterterrorism efforts against a powerful al-Qaida branch in the country.
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/US-evacuates-special-ops-forces-from-Yemen-394673
22/3/15
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ReplyDelete"They're expanding in territory, occupying airports and cities, attacking Aden with planes, detaining whom they please, threatening and gathering their forces," he said in an interview with pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera.
"We have expressed to the Gulf Cooperation Council, the United Nations as well as the international community that there should be a no-fly zone, and the use of military aircraft should be prevented at the airports controlled by the Houthis," he told the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/125916.aspx
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