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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019 file photo, a satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows thick black smoke rising from Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. The assault on the beating heart of Saudi Arabia's vast oil empire follows a new and dangerous pattern that's emerged across the Persian Gulf this summer of precise attacks that leave few obvious clues of who launched them. (Planet Labs Inc via AP, File)

The Latest: UN chief: Experts on way to probe Saudi attacks

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A Houthi military spokesman warned foreign companies to pull their employees from Saudi energy facilities. (Associated Press)

Houthi rebels claim responsibility for attacks on Saudi oil facilities

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This image provided on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, by the U.S. government and DigitalGlobe and annotated by the source, shows damage to the infrastructure at at Saudi Aramco's Kuirais oil field in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. The drone attack Saturday on Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq plant and its Khurais oil field led to the interruption of an estimated 5.7 million barrels of the kingdom's crude oil production per day, equivalent to more than 5% of the world's daily supply. (U.S. government/Digital Globe via AP)

The Latest: Saudis to invite global experts to investigate

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This Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. shows thick black smoke rising from Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. Yemen's Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires and halting about half of the supplies from the world's largest exporter of oil. (Planet Labs Inc via AP)

The Latest: Trump disputes ground rules of meeting with Iran

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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2015 photo, an Emirati gunner watches for enemy fire from the rear gate of a United Arab Emirates Chinook military helicopter flying over Yemen. Six Emirati troops have been killed in a &quot;collision,&quot; the United Arab Emirates said Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, without elaborating nor offering a location for the incident that comes after the federation of sheikhdoms began pulling out of a Saudi-led war in Yemen. Yemeni officials speaking to The Associated Press said the troops were killed in a road crash in southern Yemen. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck, File)

UAE says 6 troops killed in ‘collision,’ without elaborating

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Yemeni rebels say they killed alleged Saudi agent

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Yemeni medics say 130 bodies pulled after deadly airstrike

By BY SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

People inspect an oil tanker truck set ablaze during recent clashes between Yemeni southern separatists and government forces near Aden, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Wail al-Qubaty)

Rights experts flag violations of rape, sex abuse in Yemen

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Bodies covered in plastic lie on the ground amid the rubble of a Houthi detention center destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes, that killed at least 60 people and wounding several dozen according to officials and the rebels' health ministry, in Dhamar province, southwestern Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The officials said the airstrikes took place Sunday and targeted a college in the city of Dhamar, which the Houthi rebels use as a detention center. The Saudi-led coalition said it had hit a Houthi military facility used as storages for drones and missiles in Dhamar. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill more than 100

By Ahemd Al-haj and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2019, file photo, Houthi rebel fighters ride on trucks mounted with weapons, during a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters for the Houthi movement, in Sanaa, Yemen. Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s rebels Houthi hit a detention center in southwestern province of Dhamar, officials and the rebels’ health ministry said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Saudi-led airstrikes kill at least 100 in rebel-run prison

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Rescue workers carry a body from under the rubble of a Houthi detention center destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes, that killed at least 60 people and wounding several dozen according to officials and the rebels' health ministry, in Dhamar province, southwestern Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The officials said the airstrikes took place Sunday and targeted a college in the city of Dhamar, which the Houthi rebels use as a detention center. The Saudi-led coalition said it had hit a Houthi military facility used as storages for drones and missiles in Dhamar. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

The Latest: Red Cross: 100 presumed dead in Yemen airstrike

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A displaced Yemeni receives food aid provided by the World Food Programme, at a school in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. The U.N. humanitarian chief in Yemen warned last Wednesday that unless significant new funding is received in the coming weeks, food rations for 12 million people in the war-torn country will be reduced and at least 2.5 million malnourished children will be cut off from life-saving services. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Sweden’s FM to tour Mideast to relaunch Yemen talks

By AHMED AL-HAJ AND JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

UN backs negotiated Yemen peace including concerns of south

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FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, file photo, fighters from a militia known as the Security Belt, that is funded and armed by the United Arab Emirates, discuss launching a mortar towards Houthi rebels, in an area called Moreys, on the frontline in Yemen's Dhale province. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pledged Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, to keep their floundering coalition war against Yemen's Houthi rebels together after an Emirati troop pullout and the rise of the southern separatists they supported. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Yemeni government forces push into key port city of Aden

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Yemen officials: Government forces take separatist camps

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

A Houthi rebel fighter fires in the air during a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters for the their movement, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. The conflict in Yemen began with the 2014 takeover of Sanaa by the Houthis, who drove out the internationally-recognized government. Months later, in March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition launched its air campaign to prevent the rebels from overrunning the country's south. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) **FILE**

U.S. drone shot down in Yemen: Report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Rebels claim downing US drone over Yemen

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN envoy warns threat of Yemen’s fragmentation gets stronger

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Friday Aug. 9, 2019 frame grab from video, Southern Transitional Council separatist fighters head toward the presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen. The separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing Sunday from positions they seized from the internationally-recognized government in Aden. Both the southern separatists and the government forces are ostensibly allies in the Saudi-led military coalition that’s been battling the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen since 2015, but the four days of fighting in Aden have exposed a major rift in the alliance. (AP Photo)

Yemeni separatists, government forces clash in the south

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Saudi Arabia reports soldier killed near border with Yemen

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