{"id":2360,"date":"2017-12-21T03:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T04:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/us-military-carried-out-120-airstrikes-in-yemen-in-2017-centcom\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T03:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T04:14:24","slug":"us-military-carried-out-120-airstrikes-in-yemen-in-2017-centcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/us-military-carried-out-120-airstrikes-in-yemen-in-2017-centcom\/","title":{"rendered":"US military carried out 120 airstrikes in Yemen in 2017: CENTCOM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The US military says it has carried out more than 120 airstrikes and \u201cmultiple\u201d ground operations in Yemen in 2017.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\t“US forces have enabled regional counterterrorism partners to regain territory from these terrorists \u2014 forcing them to spend more time on survival,” US Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesman Lt. Col. Earl Brown said in a statement on Wednesday, presstv.ir reported.<\/p>\n

\n\t“These operations have helped to illuminate [sic] terrorist networks, making intelligence-gathering, subsequent targeting and follow-on operations increasingly productive and effective,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this year President Donald Trump authorized the military to conduct airstrikes against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) without notifying the government in regions designated as areas with “active hostilities.”<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Wednesday, CENTCOM praised the strikes for assassinating several al-Qaeda leaders: Mujahid al-Adani, AQAP Shabwah leader; Abu Layth al-Sanaani, Al-Bayda governorate AQAP facilitator; Ruwahah al-Sanaani, also a facilitator; and Ubaydah al-Lawdari, emir of Lawdar district.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEvery strike, every raid and every partnered operation advance the defeat of these violent extremist organizations,\u201d Brown said. \u201cUS forces will continue to use all effective measures to degrade the groups’ ability to export terror.”<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, there has been a sharp rise in the number of US drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia since US Trump took office in January, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn Yemen, 30 strikes hit within a month of the declaration being reported \u2013 nearly as many as the whole of 2016. Most of the 125 strikes in 2017 hit in central Yemen, where the US military\u2019s Central Command vigorously pursued fighters from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),\u201d said the bureau.<\/p>\n

\n\tYemen has come under regular US strikes, with Washington claiming to be targeting al-Qaeda militants while local sources say civilians have been the main victims.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe US has been contributing to the Saudi-led war on Yemen both directly, through intelligence sharing and logistical support, and indirectly, with the sale of billions of dollars\u2019 worth of arms to the Saudi regime.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Wednesday, more than a dozen civilians were killed and several others injured when Saudi military aircraft carried out separate airstrikes against residential areas across Yemen.<\/p>\n

\n\tSaudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and reinstate the former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore than 12,000 people have been killed since the onset of the campaign more than two and a half years ago. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country’s infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmerican journalist and writer Stephen Lendman recently\u00a0<\/span>told Press TV that the war against Yemen \u201cwas planned and orchestrated in Washington. It\u2019s America\u2019s war. Saudi Arabia is doing its terror bombing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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