article_snippet: U.S. and European troops were also based there while advising the government on how to tackle Al Qaeda militants in the country.
article_snippet: Witnesses said Witnesses saw a convoy of presidential vehicles leaving Hadi's palace on top of a hill overlooking the Arabian Sea.
article_snippet: A second convoy was seen heading to the Aden airport, where flights have been halted amid the Houthi advance.
article_snippet: Earlier, Al-Masirah reported that the Houthis and allied fighters had 'secured' the al-Annad air base, the country's largest.
article_snippet: Al-Masirah claimed the al-Annad air base, the country's largest had been looted by both Al Qaeda fighters and troops loyal to Hadi.
article_snippet: an Iranian 'takeover' of Yemen the al-Annad air base, the country's largest came after hours-long clashes between rival forces around the al-Annad air base, the country's largest.
article_snippet: The U.S. recently evacuated some 100 soldiers, including Special Forces commandos, from the al-Annad air base, the country's largest after Al Qaeda briefly seized a nearby city.
article_snippet: Britain also evacuated soldiers.
article_snippet: the al-Annad air base, the country's largest was crucial in the The U.S. drone campaign against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which Washington considers to be the most dangerous offshoot of the terror group.
article_snippet: And American and European military advisers there also assisted Hadi's government in Hadi's government fight against Al Qaeda branch, which holds territory in eastern Yemen and has claimed the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
article_snippet: For the sake of a secure country' in front of massive fire in the city of Taiz, Yemen yesterday .
article_snippet: Al-Dhalea, Yemen's third-largest city, is also the birthplace of Yemen 2011 Arab Spring-inspired uprising that forced Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand over power to Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in a deal brokered by the U.N. and Gulf countries.
article_snippet: Sanaa during midday prayers in what was one of Yemen's deadliest ever jihadist attacks.