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Militiamen loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi ride on an army vehicle on a street in Aden, Yemen, on March 20, 2015. Yemen's Shiite rebels, backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have seized the third-largest city after capturing the capital Sanaa in September, effectively splitting the country in half and hindering U.S. efforts to combat a powerful local al Qaeda affiliate. Hadi, a close U.S. ally, fled house arrest in Sanaa last month and has set up a base in the port city of Aden, the former capital of the once-independent south. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Al Qaeda captures major airport, oil terminal in south Yemen

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, left, speaks with his defense attorney, Sam Shamansky, during a hearing to set bond on charges of money laundering and providing support for terrorism, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, in Columbus, Ohio. Mohamud pleaded not guilty and bond was set at $1 million. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)

Ohio man charged with plot to attack, execute U.S. soldiers

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Saudi Arabian Ambassador Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir speaks during a news conference at Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington, Wednesday, April 15, 2015, about the Saudi's military campaign in Yemen. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are mulling whether to hold a joint military exercise in the kingdom as airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition are continuing to pound Shiite rebels in Yemen. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Saudi envoy says Riyadh committed to fight against al Qaeda

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

CORRECTS SPELLING OF FIRST NAME TO ZACARIAS - FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Sherburne County Sheriff Office shows al-Qaida member Zacarias Moussaoui. Attorneys for Saudi Arabia say a judge should reject claims by families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks that new evidence shows agents of the kingdom &quot;directly and knowingly&quot; helped the hijackers. They also urged the judge to disregard claims by Moussaoui, who says it was a lie that Saudi Arabia cut ties with al-Qaida in 1994. (AP Photo/Sherburne County, Minn., Sheriff's Office, File)

Saudi Arabia: No evidence its agents helped in 9/11 attacks

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived last week to distribute weapons and support security forces and Sunni volunteers at a camp in Habaniyah, west of Baghdad. After victory against Islamic State militants in the city of Tikrit, Iraq set sights on western Anbar province for its second major counteroffensive against the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Iraq may follow U.S. Marines’ blueprint to defeat Islamic State in Anbar

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left, shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida before their working lunch at the foreign ministry's Iikura guest house in Tokyo Wednesday, April 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Yuya Shino, Pool)

U.S. defense chief warns of al-Qaida gains in Yemen

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

In this courtroom sketch, defendants Noelle Velentzas, center left and Asia Siddiqui, center right, appear in federal court with their attorneys, Thursday, April 2, 2015, in New York. The two women were arrested Thursday on charges they plotted to wage violent jihad by building a homemade bomb and using it for a Boston Marathon-type terror attack. (AP Photo/Jane Rosenberg)

2 N.Y. women arrested; U.S. authorities committed to stopping ‘homegrown extremists’

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

People gather near the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes near the airport in Sanaa, Yemen, in this Tuesday, March 31, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Al Qaeda frees 300 inmates from Yemeni jail

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

Members of a militia group loyal to Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Committees, chew qat as they sit next to their tank, guarding a major intersection in Aden, Yemen, in this March 21, 2015, file photo. Once hailed by President Barack Obama as a model for fighting extremism, the U.S. counterterrorism strategy in Yemen has all but collapsed as the country descends into chaos, according to U.S. and Yemeni officials. (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi, File)

U.S. counterterrorism strategy in Yemen collapses amid chaos

By Julie Pace and Ken Dilanian - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, March 21, 2015 file photo, Members of a militia group loyal to Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Committees, chew qat, Yemen's favorite drug, as they sit next to their tank, guarding a major intersection in Aden, Yemen. Yemen’s Shiite rebels, backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have seized the third-largest city after capturing the capital Sanaa in September, effectively splitting the country in half and hindering U.S. efforts to combat a powerful local al-Qaida affiliate. Hadi, a close U.S. ally, fled house arrest in Sanaa last month and has set up a base in the port city of Aden, the former capital of the once-independent south. (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi, File)

NEWS GUIDE: The crisis in Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

A U.S. sailor guides a military jet preparing for takeoff just after another has catapulted off the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, Thursday, March 19, 2015. U.S. aircraft aboard the Carl Vinson as well as French military jets aboard the nearby French carrier Charles de Gaulle are flying missions over Iraq in the fight against Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

BRUCE FEIN: Limitless counterterrorism stupidity

By Bruce Fein

Hakim al-Zamili, a parliament member and head of Security and Defense Committee, right, visits the front line during a battle against Islamic State militants in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 16, 2015. The offensive to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit began March 2. The city is one of the largest held by the Islamic State militants on the road connected Baghdad and Mosul. Iraqi Interior Minister Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban said Monday that the campaign had halted temporarily to allow civilians in the city to evacuate and to enable troops to clear roadside bombs planted by the extremists. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

ISVARI MOHAN: Pop culture holds the answer to ISIS

By Isvari Mohan

In this Sept. 23, 2014, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville Jr., director of Operations J-3, speaks about the operations in Syria, during a news conference at the Pentagon. The U.S. military has hit as many as 17 separate targets connected to an al Qaeda cell in Syria known as the Khorasan Group, U.S. officials say. It’s part of an ongoing and little-discussed air campaign aimed at disrupting the group’s capacity to plot attacks against Western aviation. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

U.S. unclear on impact of bombing on al Qaeda group in Syria

By Ken Dilanian and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

The late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Afghanistan govt. took $1M from the CIA and used it for al Qaeda ransom: report

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias hold a demonstration on Sept. 21, 2012, against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi. (Associated Press) **FILE**

FRANK GAFFNEY JR.: Abdelhakim Belhadj, a U.S.-backed rebel, reportedly leads Islamic State in Libya

By Kyle Shideler

Gen. Lloyd Austin, who oversees military operations in the Middle East, told Congress on Tuesday that he is worried about how the removal of pertinent State Department and military staff from Yemen has further inflamed concerns about the future of counterterrorism operations in the region. (Associated Press)

U.S. Yemen evacuation weakens relations, terrorist fight: Mideast commander

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Hillary Rodham Clinton, as secretary of state, said Libya was in imminent danger of a humanitarian crisis — her main argument for going to war. U.S. intelligence couldn't corroborate her warning and lost key sources with the fall of the Gadhafi regime. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton’s war on Libya lost terror intelligence

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

President Obama's proposal for a new authorization for the use of military force would leave in place a 2001 war resolution authorizing the fight against al Qaeda. The president already has been using the 2001 resolution to justify six months of airstrikes and other combat operations against Islamic State fighters. (Associated Press)

Obama Islamic State war powers beyond congressional control, research service finds

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Yemeni man reads a newspaper featuring the front page with a photograph of former President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and a headline in Arabic that reads, &quot; did they release him or kidnap him?&quot; in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. Virtually powerless for months, Yemen’s overthrown President Hadi appeared ready to disappear from the country after fleeing Shiite rebels who held him captive in his own home. But the soft-spoken technocrat who long has avoided the limelight stepped back into it Saturday by renouncing his own resignation and challenging the Shiite Houthi rebels who hold control the capital and large parts of the country. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Hadi, once-quiet leader of Yemen, strikes newly defiant pose

By BRIAN ROHAN - Associated Press