article_snippet.sent: A US citizen has been killed in a mortar attack in Yemen after A US citizen traveled to Yemen in an attempt to extricate A US citizen pregnant wife and daughter from the civil war there and fly them  to California, family say.
article_snippet.sent: Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia launched the air strikes on March 26 in an attempt to turn back the Iran-allied Shi'ite Houthis, who already control Yemen's capital Sanaa, and restore some of Hadi's crumbling authority.
article_snippet.sent: The air and sea campaign has targeted Houthi convoys, missiles and weapons stores and cut off any possible outside reinforcements - although the Houthis deny Saudi accusations that The air and sea campaign are armed by Tehran.
article_snippet.sent: Alazzani also told Al Jazeera America Houthi forces launched the mortal shelling on Tuesday.
article_snippet.sent: Houthi forces initially advanced towards the port area, but hours later had been pushed back several streets towards an army base. '
article_snippet.sent: Anything that gets near they shoot at, and the shelling on Mualla has been indiscriminate,' a medic told Reuters.
article_snippet.sent: Armed: Followers of the Houthi movement raise Followers of the Houthi movement rifles as their rifles shout slogans against the Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen on Sunday.
article_snippet.sent: U.S. military personnel carrying out a covert drone war against AQAP were withdrawn last month after the Houthis advanced south towards Aden, close to the base out of which U.S. military personnel carrying out a covert drone war against AQAP operated.
highlights_snippet.sent: Jamal al-Labani cousin has said Houthi forces launched the mortar shelling .
  