Biden Effect: Iran-Backed Militants Storm US Embassy in Yemen – Take 25 Hostages – White House Asks for Their Release
The Biden Effect–
Shiite Houthi rebels stormed the US Embassy in Yemen and took 25 security employees hostage this week.
The US Ambassador and key staff were not at the compound and were relocated to Saudi Arabia in 2015 due to the continued fighting.
Stripes.com reported:
Yemeni security employees of the U.S. government have been detained in Sanaa, Yemen, after the compound that once housed the American Embassy was breached by Iran-backed Houthi forces, the State Department said.
For years, the Houthis have controlled Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, and much of the country’s north. The U.S. diplomatic mission suspended operations there in 2015, near the start of the country’s protracted bloody civil war between the Saudi-backed government and the Houthis,
