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Illustration on Iran's greater ambitions in the Middle East by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CLIFFORD MAY: Iran lays plans for a new Persian empire

By Clifford D. May

Pakistani families, evacuated from Yemen, are greeted by Pakistani airline staff upon their family arrival in Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, March 30, 2015. Pakistan evacuated some 500 of its citizens by a special plane from Yemeni city of Hodeida. Pakistan says some 3,000 of its citizens live in Yemen. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Airstrikes shake Yemen’s capital as Shiite rebels push south

By Ahmed Al-Haj - The Washington Times

Arab heads of state meet as King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, seen on screen, speaks, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Embattled Yemeni President Abdel Rabbo Mansour Hadi called Shiite rebels who forced him to flee the country "stooges of Iran," directly blaming the Islamic republic for the chaos there and demanding that airstrikes against rebel positions continue until they surrender. Saudi King Salman has vowed that the military intervention in Yemen will not stop until the country is stable. (Associated Press)

Arab League to forge NATO-like military alliance of Sunni powers

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (right) quickly put together a coalition last week to raid Yemen by air and position forces for an incursion by land. The regime has told President Obama that it simply will not tolerate an Iranian puppet state on its border. (Associated Press)

Arab allies wage war in Yemen with U.S. weapons, without American leadership

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud reviews a document during an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt, Sunday, March 29, 2015. Arab League member states at a summit in this Red Sea resort have agreed in principle to form a joint inter-Arab military peacekeeping force. The agreement is a telling sign of a new determination among Saudi Arabia, Egypt and their allies to intervene aggressively in regional hotspots, whether against Islamic militants or spreading Iranian power. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

Arab leaders agree to form joint military force

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, wearing an army uniform, ride on an armed truck to patrol the Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 28, 2015. Yemen's President Abed Raboo Mansour Hadi, speaking at the opening session of an Arab summit in Egypt on Saturday, called Shiite rebels who forced him to flee the country "stooges of Iran," directly blaming the Islamic Republic for the chaos there and demanding airstrikes against rebel positions continue until they surrender. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Abdel Rabbo Mansour Hadi blasts Shiite rebels as ‘stooges of Iran’

Associated Press

Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, wearing an army uniform, ride on an armed truck to patrol the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 28, 2015. Yemen's President Abed Raboo Mansour Hadi, speaking at an Arab summit in Egypt on Saturday, called Shiite rebels who forced him to flee the country "puppets of Iran," directly blaming the Islamic Republic for the chaos there and demanding airstrikes against rebel positions continue until they surrender. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

DANIEL PIPES: Why Yemen matters

By Daniel Pipes

Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, hold up their weapons to protest against Saudi-led airstrikes, during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Saudi Arabia bombed key military installations in Yemen on Thursday, leading a regional coalition in a campaign against Shiite rebels who have taken over much of the country and drove out the president. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Obama’s Mideast policy in ‘free fall,’ former Iraq ambassador says

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A Houthi Shiite rebel with Yemen's flag painted on his face chants slogans during a rally to show support for the leader of rebels, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Associated Press)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Houtis grab U.S. intel

By Sean MacCormac

Iranian Foreign Mohammad Minister Javad Zarif, right, waits for the start of a meeting with a U.S. delegation at a hotel in Lausanne Switzerland on Thursday March 26, 2015, during negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Richard Engel: Military officials say allies ‘simply don’t trust’ U.S. under Obama

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, hold up their weapons to protest against Saudi-led airstrikes, as they chant slogans during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Saudi Arabia bombed key military installations in Yemen on Thursday, leading a regional coalition in a campaign against Shiite rebels who have taken over much of the country and drove out the president. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi airstrikes in Yemen target rebel stronghold in north

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

Houthi Shiite fighters, background, patrol as their comrades attend the funeral procession of victims who were killed from triple suicide bombings that hit a pair of mosques in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Iran-backed militia given intelligence files on U.S. counterterrorism operations in Yemen

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A Houthi Shiite fighter stands guard as people search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes near Sanaa airport in Yemen, Thursday. Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes targeting military installations in Yemen held by Shiite rebels. (Associated Press)

Yemen crisis threatens Obama Iran nuclear talks, further clouds Middle East policy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Sen. Marco Rubio. (Associated Press)

Marco Rubio: Much of our strategy in the region driven by desire not to ‘offend’ Iran

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, President Yemen Abdo Rabby Mansour Hadi briefs the media after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, unseen, at the chancellery in Berlin. Yemen's embattled president fled his palace in Aden for an undisclosed location Wednesday as Shiite rebels offered cash bounty for his capture and arrested his defense minister. Hadi left just hours after the rebels' own television station said they seized an air base where U.S. troops and Europeans advised the country in its fight against al-Qaida militants. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Yemen’s president flees country by sea amid rebel advance

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

Houthi Shiite fighters (background) patrol as their comrades attend the funeral procession of victims who were killed from triple suicide bombings that hit a pair of mosques in Sanaa, Yemen, on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Saudi Arabia leads Arab attack on Yemen rebels; Iran proxy war looms

By Guy Taylor and Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

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)

Shiite rebels arrest Yemen’s defense minister

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)

Yemen evacuation will toughen fight against al Qaeda: Pentagon

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A Houthi Shiite rebel with Yemen's flag painted on his face chants slogans during a rally to show support for the leader of rebels, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Associated Press)

Yemen chaos leaves U.S. intelligence in dark on al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Gen. Michael V. Hayden, former CIA director. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Michael Hayden, ex-CIA director: U.S. looks like a nation ‘in retreat’ combating Islamic terrorists

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times