article_snippet: Also on Sunday, pro-Hadi fighters took over Aden's airport, according to security officials in Aden, but Aden's airport hasn't been operational for weeks.
article_snippet: Yemen's ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Shiite, still holds influence over large parts of the Yemeni army, and Yemen's ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Shiite troops are also fighting Yemen.
article_snippet: Hadi slipped out of Yemen last week and has gone to the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to attend the Arab League summit, where Hadi is rallying support with leaders of member nations for operation Determination Storm.
article_snippet: The unrest in Yemen led to the withdrawal of The United States special forces earlier this month, seriously undermining counterterrorism efforts in a country that has been a stronghold for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
article_snippet: For years, Yemen had allowed The United States drones and special operations forces to stalk AQAP in Yemen.
article_snippet: Houthi rebels and Yemen began doing battle in 2004, but arrived at a ceasefire in 2010, according to the CIA World Factbook.
article_snippet: Yemen has seen much unrest in the wake of the Arab Spring uprising.
article_snippet: Yemen was plunged into chaos when Houthi rebels, who have long felt marginalized in Yemen, began seizing control of the capital and other areas of Yemen last fall.
article_snippet: In January, they surrounded the presidential palace and Hadi resigned and was put under house arrest.
article_snippet: In the area of the southern port city of Aden, opposing Yemeni military forces -- those allied with Houthis, and those supporting Hadi -- have fought for more than a week.