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                     US Withdraws All Personnel from Yemen

   by VOA News

   The United States has withdrawn all its personnel from Yemen, one day
   after suicide bombers killed at least 137 people at two mosques in the
   rebel-controlled capital, Sana'a.

   The U.S. State Department said in a statement Saturday that the
   temporary relocation was due to "the deteriorating security situation
   in Yemen."

   About 100 U.S. special forces had been stationed at al-Anad air base in
   the south, from which the U.S. has launched drones against al-Qaida
   targets inside Yemen.  The State Department said the U.S. would
   "continue to actively monitor terrorist threats emanating from Yemen
   and have capabilities postured in the area to address them."

   The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Yemen
   Sunday.

   As the security situation in Yemen worsened, President Abd-Rabbu
   Mansour Hadi made his first televised speech Saturday since fleeing
   house arrest in Sana'a last month.

   Speaking from the southern city of Aden, Hadi demanded Shi'ite Houthi
   rebels leave the government ministries they have occupied, pull their
   forces out of the capital and return to U.N. sponsored peace talks.

   He also denounced what he called a "coup attempt" against him after an
   unidentified warplane fired a missile at the presidential palace in
   Aden several days ago.  Hadi was not hurt.

   Yemen has sunk into violence and chaos since a popular uprising ousted
   longtime strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012.

   Iranian-allied Houthis seized the capital in September and have battled
   with Sunnis as they try to expand their authority.

   A spokesman for the Yemeni embassy in Washington, Mohammed al-Basha,
   wrote on Twitter Saturday that he is "hearing the loud and clear
   beating of the drums of war" in Yemen.
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