weapons, vehicles and equipment worth more than $500 million that the united states gave to yemen to help them fight terrorism has gone missing officials fear that the military hardware   thought to include 160 humvees, four heuy ii helicopters, four hand launched drones, two cessna aircraft, a specialist surveillance aircraft and four patrol boats   may have fallen into the hands of an iranian backed militia or al qaeda small arms and other equipment, such as m 4 assault rifles, glock 9mm pistols, body armour, pairs of night vision goggles and 125 million of rounds of ammunition, may also have vanished missing: us firearms supplied to the interior ministry in yemen, many of which may have gone astray  violent: members of the houthi militia walk in front of the scene of a drive by shooting in which one houthi official was killed  the hardware has gone missing since 2007 the pentagon has now suspended several other packages of military aid to the country requests from yemen for heavy weapons, including fast jets, tanks and artillery, have also been rejected keeping track of military aid has become more difficult since the us closed its embassy in the capital sana'a in february after the city fell into the hands of shia rebels, according to the washington post yemen's government was ousted by shiite rebels who are supported by iran the houthi rebels have seized many buildings around the capital and in the northern part of the country president obama tasked us military advisers to train yemeni anti terror forces the us began shipping military aid to yemen in 2007 it is feared that some of this weaponry may have been looted by powerful families in yemen but much of it is feared to have made its way to jihadis meanwhile, the houthi rebel group, which has been in control of sana'a since september, has released members of the government from house arrest horror: a yemeni boy stands next to bloods stains at the site where abdul karim al khiwani, a member of the revolutionary committee of the huthis who control sanaa, was shot dead  violence continues to plague the country this week, one of yemen's top journalists and activists close to the houthi militia, abdul kareem al khaiwani, was gunned down by motorcyclists in front of his son, according to the group's official television channel al maseerah yemen is torn by a power struggle between the iranian backed houthis in the north and the un recognised president abd rabbu mansour hadi, who has set up a rival seat in the southern port city of aden with gulf arab support
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america has given large amounts of military aid to yemen since 2007  pentagon has suspended all military aid packages to yemen in the pipeline  it is rejecting further requests from yemen for fast jets, tanks and artillery 