The U.S. pullout, which came as the U.N. Security Council prepared to meet on Sunday on a request from embattled Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi for an "urgent intervention," marked a further setback in U.S. counterterrorism efforts against a powerful al Qaeda branch in the country.
(Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)U.S. evacuates special operations forces from Yemen
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