Sunday on AM 970 New York’s “The Cats Roundtable,” in discussing the chaos in Yemen with host John Catsimatidis, Rep. Peter King (R- NY) said the American people need to understand Russia and Iran are moving on many fronts and
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace,” Associated Press White House correspondent Julie Pace said, “I think what’s tricky for this White House is they use phrases like strategic patience, long-term commitment, and then you have these
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” President Barack Obama’s former Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta said his former boss’ polices have helped make Yemen “another failed state in the Middle East,” which in turn gives al Qaeda in the Arabian
Chaos and uncertainty continue to mire Yemen with the fall of the nation’s capital to Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
In the recently released, but largely unheralded, National Security Strategy of the United States, the new buzz-word was “strategic patience.” As our unarmed Marines hastily departed Yemen, and ISIS closed in on their fellow devil-dogs in Iraq, the President was more than showing patience: he was making video about taking selfies.
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda-linked fighters seized a large army base in a dawn attack in southern Yemen on Thursday, militants and residents said, hours after the United Nations warned that the country was on the brink of civil war.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that President Obama was attempting “regime change” in Israel on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “Barack Obama has forsworn regime change in the region, remember when we had the Iranian
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki admitted that the US’ policy in Libya has not succeeded in an interview broadcast on Thursday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. After she was asked “the problem that the United States has now
A new report details the horrific exploits of “Unit 190,” an even more shadowy unit of the already-shady Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Unit 190, according to Western intelligence sources quoted by Fox News, has for many years been smuggling arms to terrorist groups in conflict zones across the Middle East, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and the new masters of Yemen, the Houthis.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has retained its ability to conduct counterterrorism operations inside Yemen, a Pentagon spokesman told Breitbart News.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer dubbed the evacuation of the US Embassy in Yemen “a devastating setback” because Yemen “is now going to become an ally of Iran” on Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “What just happened in Yemen is,
**Update added (see below)** In a report that aired on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” host Megyn Kelly revealed U.S. Marines stationed to guard the U.S. Embassy in Yemen were instructed by the State Department to surrender their weapons
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In an address on September 10, 2014, President Obama touted Yemen as a counterterrorism success story and said it would be the model for the US’ strategy against ISIS. “This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort
The State Department is confirming it has closed the U.S. Embassy in Yemen and evacuated its staff because of the political crisis and security concerns following the takeover of much of the country by Shiite rebels.
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s ability to account for the weapons and equipment the United States has sent to Yemen has been hindered by the unrest in the country, Breitbart News has confirmed.
Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels announced today that they have dissolved the Yemeni parliament and installed their own “transitional national council of 551 members” plus a five-member “presidential council” to rule the country for at least two years, as reported by CBS News. A new national constitution is to be drafted by the revolutionary government.
WASHINGTON — Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in an interview with CNN, indicated that he felt pressure from Obama’s White House to release detainees from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
President Obama said that while “we are safer” there has been a “breakdown in order” in the Middle East in an interview broadcast on Monday’s “Today” on NBC. “Yemen’s a tough situation. This is a country that’s always been fragile,
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ARLINGTON, VA — Representatives for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner argued before Obama’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) on Tuesday that the al-Qaeda linked detainee should be reunited with his family in Yemen where the U.S.-backed government collapsed last week.
Iranian control of Yemen gives the Mullahs the option of cutting off the sea lanes connecting the Mediterranean to the Indian Oceans. This is a very real threat, as the Iran-backed Houthi rebels consolidate control over Yemen. Most of the West’s oil and most of Western trade with the Far East depends on these sea lanes.
