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Boehner: Obama Is an ‘Anti-War President’

Thursday at his weekly press briefing, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said President Barack Obama is an “anti-war president” who is allowing Yemen to fall into a proxy war of Islam in the Middle East between Iranian backed Shia forces

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Obama Administration Officially on Every Side of Every Middle East Conflict

On Wednesday, the government of Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, which has now collapsed into civil war. Egypt is set to join in the Saudi effort even as Saudi Arabia establishes a no-fly zone. Meanwhile, rebels claimed that Yemen’s president, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, fled Aden in advance of their consolidation of power on the ground. And Iran, which has fomented the chaos in Yemen, has warned Saudi Arabia that it had taken a “dangerous step.”

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Press Grills WH For Refusing to Admit Yemen Strategy a Failure

Wednesday at the White House press briefing, reporters from ABC, CNN and Fox News grilled press secretary Josh Earnest for continuing to claim Yemen is the Obama administration’s model for counterterrorism. Their questions come as today’s news that the country

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Engel: Iranian-Backed Rebels ‘Almost Unopposed’ in Yemen

NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reported that Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen are taking territory “almost unopposed” on Wednesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “It’s going from bad to worse for the US-backed government and the US-backed president who

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Top Iranian Commander Boasts of Dominating Jordan

In a youth conference in Tehran, Iran’s top military commanders assured the crowd that Jordan would soon be controlled by the mullahs, as they have already spread their malevolent influence into Iraq and Lebanon with terrorist forces, Haaretz reports.

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Yemen Factions Prepare For All-Out Civil War

Just as the U.S. presence in Yemen has finalized its complete withdrawal, factions within in the country—such as the Iran-backed Shiite Houthis and Sunni government forces—are said to be preparing to engage in a full-scale civil war to determine who will rule the Gulf state.

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WH Still Says Yemen Is a Model For Success

Monday at the White House press briefing, in light of Saturday’s evacuation of all remaining special forces troops amid the chaos erupting in Yemen, when asked if President Barack Obama’s claims that Yemen is a model for success in U.S.

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McCaul: Yemen Has The Potential to Attack the United States

Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” while discussing the Saturday’s evacuation of all remaining special forces troops amid the chaos erupting in Yemen, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) said the “developments in Yemen greatly disturb me because of

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Massive Terror Attack In Yemen With Over 100 Fatalities

A horrific coordinated suicide bomb attack on two Shiite mosques in Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa has killed at least 100 people and injured hundreds more, according to Fox News. ISIS militants have claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted members of the Iran-backed Shiite Houthi tribe which overthrew Yemen’s American-backed Sunni elected government in January.

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Inspired by ISIS, Kids in Yemen Set Fire to Ten-Year-Old Boy in Cage

Gulf News tells a story of ISIS’ viral evil spreading into Yemen, which was hardly suffering from a shortage of villainy: “Inspired by the video of Daesh (Islamic State/ISIS) burning to death the Jordanian pilot Muath Al Kasaesbeh, a group of boys set about re-enacting the atrocity in their Al Dahthath village in Yemen’s northern province of Ibb.”

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Yemen Ex-President Amassed up to $60 Billion, Colluded with Rebels

(Reuters) – Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is suspected of corruptly amassing as much as $60 billion, equivalent to Yemen’s annual GDP, during his long rule, and colluding in a militia takeover last year, U.N.-appointed investigators have told the Security Council.

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Gunmen Kidnap French Woman in Yemen

A French woman in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, has been kidnapped by gunmen amid political crisis and deteriorating security conditions following the takeover of the U.S.-backed Yemeni government by Shiite Houthi rebels, according to various media reports.

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State Dept. Quietly Panicked Over Possible Exposure Of Sensitive Intel During Yemen Evacuation

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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Retreat: Marines Training in California to Evacuate Embassies

As uncertainty continues to plague the Middle East, Marines in Barstow, California have begun undergoing training to prepare for a a second round of deployments this spring into the war-ravaged region. In light of the recent closure of several U.S. embassies in countries such as Yemen, these “crisis-response capability” troops could be ordered to assist with evacuating embassies that have come under siege in the same way.

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