The Pentagon suggested in a press briefing that the U.S. doesn’t have troops in Yemen, but in a December report, the White House said it did.
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    Amid a raft of U.S. strikes targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Pentagon has boots on the ground in the country — a fact the Defense Department has recently refused to acknowledge.

    “A small number of United States military personnel are deployed to Yemen to conduct operations against al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula and ISIS,” the White House told Congress in its most recent War Powers Act report on December 7.

    This month, the U.S. began its military campaign against the Houthis for attacking shipping vessels in the Red Sea, a move the Yemeni rebels said was aimed at getting Israel to end its assault on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

    “Maj Gen Ryder’s prior assertion that there are no U.S. forces on the ground in Yemen remains accurate,” Lt. Col. Bryon McGarry told The Intercept in a statement following publication of this story.

    “It’s possible that U.S. forces are spread so widely around the globe that not even the professional tasked with knowing that can keep track of it all,” said Erik Sperling, the executive director of Just Foreign Policy, who worked on Yemen as a Capitol Hill staffer.

    The Houthis, a rebel group in Yemen that controls most of the country’s most populous territories, blockaded the Red Sea, with the stated objective of halting Israel’s war in Gaza.

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