Yemen’s President and his top military officials are reportedly on the run from their temporary stronghold in the southern port city of Aden, after Iran-backed Houthi militants stormed the area in an attempt to usurp more territory and capture the president.
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Fox News got its hands on some internal State Department memos revealing what the network calls “genuine concern – even panic” over the possible exposure of sensitive intelligence networks to the anti-American, Iran-backed Houthi rebels who took over Yemen, obliging the foreign-policy geniuses of the Obama Administration to stage a hasty exit from our embassy there.
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Yemeni rebels have begun shelling the nation’s presidential palace in the capital city of Sanaa, and some reports suggest they have stormed the building.
(Reuters) – Yemen’s powerful Houthi movement fought artillery battles with the army near the presidential palace in Sanaa on Monday, surrounded the prime minister’s residence and drew accusations they were mounting a coup.
