Relations between Yemen and the United States

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The relationship is certainly not just about terror and attacks. If I look at the referenced and five times longer article in en: Wiki, then there is a lot more in there too. At least more topics should be broached. This could also be placed in "War on Terror", but diplomatic relations are much more than that. - USA fan ( discussion ) 05:41, Feb. 9, 2017 (CET)

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USA and Yemen

Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Kirbi with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama (2009)

President Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi with Foreign Minister John Kerry (2013)

The relations between Yemen and the United States are of disputes in the war on terrorism dominated.

The USA had diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Yemen (Northern Yemen) from 1946 and with its successor, the Yemeni Arab Republic , since the state was founded in 1962. With the establishment of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) in 1967 diplomatic relations were established with this state. The two states were united in 1990 to form what is now Yemen .

On October 12, 2000, the American destroyer USS Cole was attacked in the port of Aden .

On September 30, 2011, the US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki , who is said to have been behind the attempted attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in 2009, was killed in a US drone attack in Yemen, two weeks later his 16-year-old was killed Son the same way. After his eight-year-old daughter was shot dead by US forces in Yemen on January 29, 2017, the country withdrew its consent to US ground-based military operations.

The US ambassador to Yemen has been based in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia, since 2015 .

See also

• List of United States Ambassadors to Yemen

Web links

Commons : Relations of the United States and Yemen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jeremy M. Sharp: Yemen: Background and US Relations. Congressional Research Service, February 11, 2015.
• US Relations With Yemen. Department of State, February 2, 2017.
• Embassy of Yemen in the USA
• US Embassy in Yemen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt: Yemen Withdraws Permission for US Antiterror Ground Missions. New York Times, February 7, 2017.