Undated handout photo of the remote-controlled Predator B unmanned surveillance aircraft, which can fly for 20 hours up to 15,000 metres in the air. The United States has stepped up its attacks on militant suspects in Yemen with armed drones and fighter jets, according to a U.S. media report, amid a perilous power vacuum in the troubled country. Photograph by: Handout, Postmedia NewsU.S. Is Intensifying A Secret Campaign Of Yemen Airstrikes -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.
The acceleration of the American campaign in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has left the government in Sana, a United States ally, struggling to cling to power. Yemeni troops that had been battling militants linked to Al Qaeda in the south have been pulled back to the capital, and American officials see the strikes as one of the few options to keep the militants from consolidating power.
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More News On U.S. Military Involvement In Yemen
U.S. intensifying covert war in Yemen: report -- Reuters
Report: U.S. steps up air strikes in Yemen -- CBS/AP
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Report: US Intensifying Covert War in Yemen -- Voice of America
U.S. ups Yemen airstrikes with drones, fighter jets -- Vancouver Sun/AFP
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