New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- American strikes on the Houthi positions that are now rolling up its army. The requests, according to The Washington Post, have gone unanswered.

Sources inside Yemen's internationally recognized government told the paper that the United States has confined its involvement to sharing targeting intelligence and logistics with Saudi forces through Marines stationed in the kingdom, stopping well short of direct military support. What frustrates officials in Aden is not that Washington said no. It is that Washington has not said much of anything, leaving requests sitting alongside an earlier round of aborted airstrikes that a US president loaded, then called off.

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