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Yemen
[ yem-uhn, yey-muhn ]
noun
- Republic of Yemen, a country in southern Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). ʿ. Aden. Formerly Southern Yemen.
- a former country in southwestern Arabia: since 1990 a part of the Republic of Yemen. : ʿ. Also called North Yemen.
- a former country in southern Arabia: since 1990 a part of the Republic of Yemen. : Aden. Also called South Yemen.
Yemen
/ ˈɛə /
noun
- a republic in SW Arabia, on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden: formed in 1990 from the union of North Yemen and South Yemen: consists of arid coastal lowlands, rising to fertile upland valleys and mountains in the west and to the Hadhramaut plateau in the SE: the north and east contains part of the Great Sandy Desert. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: Muslim. Currency: riyal. Capital: San`a. Pop: 25 408 288 (2005 est). Area (including territory claimed by Yemen along the undemarcated eastern border with Saudi Arabia): 472 099 sq km (182 278 sq miles) Official nameYemen Republic See also North Yemen South Yemen
Yemen
- Now the Republic of Yemen . Yemen is at the mouth of the Red Sea , in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula , bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the east; formerly divided into North Yemen (the Yemen Arab Republic) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
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The firings follow a major controversy involving the NSC last month when senior officials inadvertently added a journalist to a Signal messaging thread about military strikes in Yemen.
The Pentagon is diving deeper into the controversy surrounding a group chat between Trump administration officials discussing war plans in Yemen.
Other groups backed by Iran in the region, part of what it calls the Axis of Resistance, have also been significantly weakened, including Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen.
Also present at the meeting between Loomer and Trump was National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, who accidentally added journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a Yemen group chat discussing then-unknown military operations in Yemen last month.
Last year, the Houthi rebels in Yemen were accused of cutting three cables underneath the Red Sea.
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