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The shadow of Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, are cast on a large representation of the Yemeni flag as they attend a demonstration against an arms embargo imposed by the U.N. Security Council on Houthi leaders, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, April 16, 2015. Rare protests have erupted against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Thursday, March 24, 2023, following the funeral of a popular critic found dead after he was detained by the group. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) **FILE**

Yemen crisis resists resolution despite Iran-Saudi thaw

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The shadow of Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, are cast on a large representation of the Yemeni flag as they attend a demonstration against an arms embargo imposed by the U.N. Security Council on Houthi leaders, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, April 16, 2015. Rare protests have erupted against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Thursday, March 24, 2023, following the funeral of a popular critic found dead after he was detained by the group. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) **FILE**

Yemen rebels restrict humanitarian flights arriving in Sanaa

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

In this photo from the U.S. Army, anti-tank missiles and medium-range ballistic missile components seized by the United Kingdom Royal Navy sit pier side at an undisclosed location in the Middle East on Feb. 26, 2023. The British navy seized anti-tank missiles and fins for ballistic missile assemblies during a raid on a small boat heading from Iran likely to Yemen, authorities said Thursday, March 2, 2023, the latest such seizure in the Gulf of Oman. (Sgt. Brandon Murphy/U.S. Army via AP)

British navy seizes Iran missiles, parts likely Yemen bound

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Iran arming terrorists illustration by The Washington Times

Iran’s arsenal of tyranny

By Clifford D. May

A Yemeni fighter backed by the Saudi-led coalition fires his weapon during clashes with Houthi rebels on the Kassara frontline near Marib, Yemen, June 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Yemen rebels, Saudis in back-channel talks to maintain truce

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Yemeni police inspect a site of Saudi-led airstrikes targeting two houses in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2022. Weapons supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States and used by a Saudi-led coalition fighting in war-torn Yemen caused at least 87 civilians and wounded 136 others, in a 14-month period, an Oxfam report released Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Arms supplied by UK, US killed civilians in Yemen

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Palestinian soccer fans wave Qatari and Palestinian flags as they watch a live broadcast of the 2022 World Cup opening match between Qatar and Ecuador, at a covered gymnasium in Gaza City, on Nov. 20, 2022. For a brief moment after Saudi Arabia's Salem Aldawsari fired a soccer ball from just inside the penalty box into the back of the net to seal a win against Argentina, Arabs across the divided Middle East found something to celebrate. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

Flashes of Arab unity at World Cup after years of discontent

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Hunter Pemberton assigned to the USS Cole takes part in an exercise on the Red Sea March 29, 2022. The U.S. Navy said Wednesday, April 13, 2022, that it will begin a new task force with allied countries to patrol the Red Sea after a series of attacks attributed to Yemen's Houthi rebels in a waterway that's essential to global trade. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Christopher Stachyra/U.S. Navy, AP)

U.S. Navy says new task force to patrol Red Sea amid Yemen war

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi walks next of his Tunisian counterpart Beji Caid Essebsi, not in photo, upon his arrival at Tunis-Carthage international airport to attend the Arab Summit, in Tunis, Tunisia, March 30, 2019. Yemen’s exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council on Thursday, April 7, 2022, as international and regional efforts to end the country’s long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Yemen’s president steps aside amid efforts to end war

By Ahmed Al-Haj and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Yemeni police inspect a site of Saudi-led airstrikes targeting two houses in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Yemen's warring sides have accepted a two-month truce, starting with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the U.N. envoy to Yemen said Friday, April 1. The envoy, Hans Grundberg, announced the agreement from Amman, Jordan, after meeting separately with both sides in the country's brutal civil war in recent days. He said that he hoped the truce would be renewed after two months. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

U.N. says Yemen’s warring parties agree to 2-month truce

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

Houthi supporters attend a rally during the seventh anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition's intervention in Yemen's war in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, 26 March, 2022. (AP Photo/Abdulsalam Sharhan)

Gulf states plan Yemen talks without Houthi rebels present

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Biden is in Poland for the final leg of his four-day trip to Europe as he tries to maintain unity among allies and support Ukraine's defence. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Biden faces growing pressure over nuclear talks, rumored plan to pull Iran’s IRGC from terror list

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Armed Houthi fighters attend the funeral procession of Houthi rebel fighters who were killed in recent fighting with forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Nov. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

U.S. Navy says Yemen rebels fired missile into busy Red Sea

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this Saturday, June 1, 2019 photo, U.S. Navy F-18 Hornets form up off the wing of a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, and part of the Bomber Task Force deployed to the region conduct joint exercises in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility in the Arabian Sea. (Staff Sgt. Erin Piazza/U.S. Air Force via AP) **FILE**

U.S. F-22 fighter jets arrive in U.A.E. after Houthi attacks

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Posters of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack in Jan. 3, 2020, are seen in front of ballistic missiles exhibited on display in Tehran by Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Jan. 7,2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) **FILE**

Iran’s Quds Force training proxy naval forces, opposition group says

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army troops work near a Patriot missile battery at Al-Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 5, 2021. The U.S. military launched Patriot interceptor missiles during an attack Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, by Yemen's Houthi rebels that targeted the United Arab Emirates during a visit by Israel's president, the second-such time American troops have opened fire, officials said. (Staff Sgt. Jao'Torey Johnson/U.S. Air Force via AP)

U.S. military fired missiles during Yemen Houthi attack on UAE

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, center, and First Lady Michal Herzog are received by UAE Foreign Minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Israel's president arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday in the first official visit by the country's head of state, the latest sign of deepening ties between the two nations as tensions rise in the region. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via AP)

UAE intercepts Yemen missile as Israeli president visits

By Jon Gambrell and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

A Yemeni fighter backed by the Saudi-led coalition fires his weapon during clashes with Houthi rebels on the Kassara frontline near Marib, Yemen, Sunday, June 20, 2021. Forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government and their United Arab Emirates-backed allies swept through a strategic province, forcing Houthi rebels out of its second largest district, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Yemen forces sweep through key province in blow to rebels

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

In this satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC, an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. fuel depot in the Mussafah neighborhood of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is seen Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, before being targeted in an attack days later. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

United Arab Emirates intercepted ballistic missiles targeting Abu Dhabi, State-run news agency says

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC, smoke rises over an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. fuel depot in the Mussafah neighborhood of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. A drone attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people on Monday and sparked a fire at Abu Dhabi's international airport. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite photos show aftermath of Abu Dhabi oil site attack

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press