The leader of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah resistance movement says the country’s security apparatus has frustrated Saudi-led coalition’s conspiracies to target national peace and stability.
The leader of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah resistance movement says the country’s security apparatus has frustrated Saudi-led coalition’s conspiracies to target national peace and stability.
The US forces have conducted multiple ground operations and more than 120 air strikes against terror groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Yemen in 2017, under a long-running campaign, the Pentagon has said.
and there is no doubt that we would prefer a situation where there is a stable government, where there is a place where u.s. personnel could operate inside of yemen, coordinate directly with yemeni security forces to take the fight to these extremists. but the fact is that even though u.s. personnel is no longer in yemen, the united states continues to have the capacity and resources and reach to be able to take strikes when necessary against extremists operating chris, how, josh how when you have the embassy closed, americans have left, you have the parliament that has been dissolved, you have the president fleeing on a boat maybe towards djibouti you have so many less possibilities for intelligence on the ground how can you say that we are still in a counter terror situation there? and opening that s created for a qap in this chaotic situation? again, chris, we would much rather be in a situation with stable central government to actively support our on going efforts and in a w
reporter: the protesters in yemen set out to destroy the american embassy in sanaa to punish an insult against islam. protesters climbed the perimeter fence, undeterred by yemeni security forces who tried to keep them back with water cannons. the crowds pushed forward and managed to get inside the embassy parking lot, smashing windows, torching vehicles, using a fork lift to do even more damage. this time, the u.s. embassy was prepared. staff was moved to a safe location. no one was hurt. in cairo, another embassy under siege, but egyptian security forces are finally taking decisive action. riot police battled demonstrators all day. more than 200 were overcome by tear gas. as the air burned with the stuff, protesters told me their goal was to get to the cairo embassy and take vengeance.