A car bomb went off outside the residence of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Rabbu Hadi in the city of Aden. According to Reuters, the target was a security checkpoint, but casualty numbers have yet to be released. The attack was part of the ongoing struggle between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels, in what many are characterizing as a proxy war carried out at the behest of Iran. Thus far, military forces from both Yemen and other regional powers have been unable to resolve the situation.
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