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article_snippet.sent: US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter acknowledged on Wednesday that the fighting in Yemen was complicating Washington's counter-terrorism efforts but vowed the fighting in Yemen would go on regardless. '
article_snippet.sent: Obviously it's always easier to conduct CT ops when there is a stable government willing to cooperate,' US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said. '
article_snippet.sent: That circumstance now obviously doesn't exist in Yemen but that doesn't mean that we don't continue to take steps to protect we.
article_snippet.sent: we have to do it in a different way, but we do and we are.'