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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Sunday for the restoration to power in Yemen of Western-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after Houthi militia seized power.
Nonetheless, three defense officials said that in recent days the U.S. has moved search-and-rescue aircraft into northern Iraq to shorten the response time in the event of another pilot loss. Al-Kaseasbeh's plane went down in December and he was quickly captured by Islamic State fighters before U.S. rescue crews could reach him.
In an update issued after a meeting of its emergency committee on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, the United Nations health agency said more must be done to track the virus, which is known to have infected at least 965 people, of whom some 357 have died.
The accession of King Salman in Saudi Arabia has caused glimmers of hope among Muslim Brotherhood exiles in Qatar that the Middle East's political winds have started to shift in their favour, potentially giving the Islamist group more space to act.
The air attacks were carried out in the Dangam district of Kunar province in support of Afghan efforts to push back Afghan and Pakistani Taliban fighters, according to coalition spokesman Col. Brian Tribus and Afghan officials.
A former member of the Saudi Shura Council close to the decision-making circles in Saudi Arabia told Al-Monitor in a phone interview on condition of anonymity, “Hamas’ optimism toward the new rule in Riyadh may be justified, especially since King Salman will be interested in mending several strained Saudi relationships in the region, including with Hamas. Yet, this will not necessarily happen overnight.” He added, “Hamas and Saudi Arabia still have time to get to know the nature of the new policy governing their relationship. The king has a packed regional and international agenda, and Hamas may have to narrow the circle of its adversaries and enemies before gaining new allies and friends in Riyadh. It has the right to do so, but it is still early for that now.”
White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters that following a congressional request last year the intelligence community was undertaking a review of the decision to classify the secret section. He did not say when it might be completed.
The strategy document is largely expected to advocate a continuation of Obama’s foreign-policy approach of the last four years. To lawmakers of both parties, former cabinet officials, foreign leaders, and policy experts who have pilloried Obama’s reluctance to use American power more decisively to shape the outcome of global conflicts, his new national security strategy appears to be an endorsement of the foreign policy the administration already is pursuing.
Thousands of people are marching in Jordan's capital, Amman, in support of their government's fight against Islamic State (IS) militants.
The ramifications of this decision across the globe, not just in energy markets, but politically, are already having consequences for the global landscape. Lost in the effort to understand the vast implications is an even more important signal sent by Saudi Arabia, the owner of more than 16% of the world’s proved oil reserves, about its view of the future of fossil fuels.
