A wooden mosque with a gold-domed top is set amid streets of battered mobile homes and churches for Roman Catholics, Baptists and Nazarenes. There’s a Somali restaurant, a shop for Central American groceries, and a Thai takeout place.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Trump administration promised a tougher stance against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, and its new airstrike campaign appears to be more intense and more extensive, according to anThe strikes against the
began March 15 and continue.Here’s what to know about the campaign.are more intense over a far shorter period of time than those launched by the Biden administration. The U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, known as ACLED, has reported 56 events involving American strikes between March 15 and March 21.
The campaign has also seen the highest number of events in a week since the American bombing campaign began on Yemen during the Israel-Hamas war.A larger number of strikes is to be expected. The Trump administration is allowing Mideast-based U.S. forces to launch offensive strikes at will, rather than having the White House sign off on each attack as under President Joe Biden.
The overall death toll from the attacks is 57, according to the Houthis. That figure is just over half of the 106 people the Houthis’ secretive leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, claimed that the U.S. and U.K. had killed in strikes during all of 2024.
U.S. national security adviser, Mike Waltz, has claimed key members of Houthi leadership, including their “head missileer,” have been killed. The Houthis have not acknowledged any losses in their leadership.Bartholomew, who is on a weeklong visit to Greece, met Thursday with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis days after they both attended the
NEW YORK (AP) — Responding to complaints from the tech industry and other countries, the U.S. Department of Commerce has rescinded a Biden-era rule due to take effect Thursday that placed limits on the number of artificial intelligence chips that could be exported to certain international markets without federal approval.“These new requirements would have stifled American innovation and saddled companies with burdensome new regulatory requirements,” the Commerce Department
President Joe Biden established the export framework shortly before he left office in an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries. While the United States had already restricted exports to adversariesand Russia, some of those