Saleh was also quoted as saying that he lacks financial authority over the Houthis, adding that they become an independent political power and authority on ground.

Saleh also said he has had “nothing to do with the army and security forces ever since he officially handed over power in 2012.”

(6.August 2009) As many have noted, the President does not describe this as a „war on terrorism.“ That is because „terrorism“ is but a tactic—a means to an end, which in al Qaeda’s case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate. Confusing ends and means is dangerous, because by focusing on the tactic, we risk floundering among the terrorist trees while missing the growth of the extremist forest. And ultimately, confusing ends and means is self-defeating, because you can never fully defeat a tactic like terrorism any more than you can defeat the tactic of war itself.

Likewise, the President does not describe this as a „global war.“ Yes, al Qaeda and other terrorists groups operate in many corners of the world and continue to launch attacks in different nations, as we saw most recently in Jakarta. And yes, the United States will confront al Qaeda aggressively wherever it exists so that it enjoys no safe haven. But describing our efforts as a „global war“ only plays into the warped narrative that al Qaeda propagates. It plays into the misleading and dangerous notion that the U.S. is somehow in conflict with the rest of the world. It risks setting our Nation apart from the world, rather than emphasizing the interests we share. And perhaps most dangerously, portraying this as a „global“ war risks reinforcing the very image that al Qaeda seeks to project of itself—that it is a highly organized, global entity capable of replacing sovereign nations with a global caliphate. And nothing could be further from the truth.

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An Egyptian army captain and two other soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Rafah, near the border with the Gaza Strip on Monday, security and medical sources said.

(22.Juni 2013) Reports had been circulating on Thursday on the Washington Times and state-run Al-Ahram websites that United States soldiers were being deployed on Egyptian soil to combat riots.

Major Ahmed Shaaban told Daily News Egypt that such claims are inaccurate. “They are only training as a precautionary measure,” said Shaaban. “However, they were present during 25 January Revolution and other incidents that followed but nothing happened to them.”

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The first shipment of French weapons and military equipment arrived in Lebanon on Monday, part of a Saudi-funded deal worth $3 billion to bolster the Lebanese army to help it fight militants encroaching from neighboring Syria.

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The options are due to be discussed by EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday that will now be dominated by the latest migration disaster in the Mediterranean after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast, killing up to 700 migrants.

Another option suggested in the paper is that EU soldiers could secure oil installations in Libya to let international oil firms resume operations.

(4.März 2011) Der Staat Deutschland begeht, 69 Jahre nach dem Rückzug seiner faschistischen Truppen aus Libyen, wieder einen kriegerischen Akt in Nordafrika. Bereits seit Wochen sind deutsche Luftlande-Einheiten in Libyen aktiv. Deutsche Kriegsschiffe liefen bereits vor Ausbruch des Aufstands in Libyen aus. Alle Staatsparteien – CDU, CSU, SPD, FDP, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Die Linke – lügen, kollaborieren oder verschweigen die Wahrheit vor der Öffentlichkeit. Aus Staatsmedien und Informationsindustrie strömt Militär-Propaganda.

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Likud will require its future coalition partners to vote in favor of bills that would weaken the Supreme Court, a senior Likud official said Sunday.

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With no signs of any imminent coalition agreements, Benjamin Netanyahu was Monday to ask President Reuven Rivlin to give him until May 7 to put together a government.

Read Aluf Benn‘s series of articles on the Israeli-Iranian ‚oil arbitration‘: The secret hands guiding Israel’s controversial pipeline | Netanyahu signed secrecy order to conceal Israel-Iran legal battle | A French Jew and an Iranian judge try to settle Israel-Iran oil pipeline dispute | Israel holding over $250m it owes Iran for oil in secret account | Secrecy in Israel‘s oil industry: Lapid extended boss‘ tenure to tighten grip on firm

(16.April)

Haaretz Editorial: Herzog‘s main goal must be to establish as broad an opposition as possible, which will be based on the principles of democracy, negating racism and the struggle for peace.

With the deadline fast approaching, the Israeli leader was to formally request an extension of up to two weeks at a working meeting with Rivlin on Monday morning, the president’s office said in a statement.

“At the conclusion of the meeting, the prime minister will request an extension of the time allocated to him to form the new governing coalition,” a statement said.