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Shiite Rebels Call for Yemen Offensive; US Troops Evacuate

2015-03-22 09:05:29       source:ABC News

March 21, 2015


"Yemen's Shiite rebels issued a call to arms Saturday to battle forces loyal to the country's embattled president, as U.S. troops were evacuating a southern air base crucial to America's drone strike program after al-Qaida militants seized a nearby city.


The turmoil comes as Yemen battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the target of the drone program, and faces a purported affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group that claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings killing at least 137 people Friday.


All these factors could push the Arab world's most impoverished country, united only in the 1990s, back toward civil war."


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