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[quote]The United Nations Security Council has announced it will hold an emergency meeting on violence-wracked Yemen, diplomats said, after US troops were evacuated from a key airbase. The meeting will take place at the request of embattled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, amid spiralling violence, after several suicide bombings at Shia Houthi mosques killed at least 137 people on Friday. The meeting was announced by the UN as US troops, who conducted counterterrorism operations against al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups, were leaving the al-Anad airbase in Lahj province on Saturday citing security concerns. In a statement, the US State Department said: "Due to the deteriorating security situation in Yemen, the US Government has temporarily relocated its remaining personnel out of Yemen. "We will continue to engage the Yemeni people and the international community to strongly support Yemen’s political transition." Saturday's evacuation came a day after suicide bombers, reportedly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), killed at least 137 worshippers and wounded hundreds more at two mosques in the capital Sanaa. Washington, which considers Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) one of the most dangerous wings of al-Qaeda, had lent financial and logistical support to Yemen's government in combatting the armed group. Hadi, who has since fled the capital to the southern port city of Aden, has been a vocal supporter of the US war against al-Qaeda, at one point saying he approved each US drone strike. The UN spokesperson's office said in an email late on Saturday that the UN Security Council will hold a closed emergency session on the Yemen crisis on Sunday afternoon at 3pm local time (1900 GMT). The meeting will allow the envoys of the 15 member countries to hear an update on the situation on the ground, likely to be made by UN Special Adviser Jamal Benomar, who has tried to mediate the conflict for several months. Representatives from Yemen and Qatar will also speak before the council meets behind closed doors.[/quote] [url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/03/evacuates-100-special-forces-yemen-airbase-150321160333019.html[/url]
Good to see the US cares about the safety of their forces, I suppose.
IIRC aren't the Houthi's the good guys in Yemen?
I know we don't need another major antiterrorist intervention like Iraq, but jesus is ISIS been getting stronger in other countries like Libya, Yemen, etc.
[QUOTE=RG4ORDR;47373467]IIRC aren't the Houthi's the good guys in Yemen?[/QUOTE] There's no good guys in a sectarian conflict it's just perspective. Either way Houthi's are heavily influenced by Iran, therefore a problem in the US eyes. [editline]22nd March 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Deathtrooper2;47374405]I know we don't need another major antiterrorist intervention like Iraq, but jesus is ISIS been getting stronger in other countries like Libya, Yemen, etc.[/QUOTE] You're drinking the media hype koolaid. ISIS holds 1 maybe 2 cities in rural Libya, and ISIS in Yemen is minuscule to say the least.
[QUOTE=Aman;47374689] You're drinking the media hype koolaid. ISIS holds 1 maybe 2 cities in rural Libya, and ISIS in Yemen is minuscule to say the least.[/QUOTE] Seems you've had a sip too a little. This isn't ISIS but groups who have pledged allegiance to ISIS, which is all that really connects them to the group. The group in Syria is very much independent of the "other ones" in Africa and the Middle East as they are to it. There's no grand coordinated strategy or unified command between them all. [editline]22nd March 2015[/editline] It's best to just call them "ISIS affiliated group", but the media has to get the fear train going for the ratings.
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