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The Saudi-led military coalition engaged in Yemen said on Thursday it had established a presence on a strategic island at the entrance to the Red Sea to counter perceived threats to maritime trade from the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

The Saudi-led military coalition engaged in Yemen said on Thursday it had established a presence on a strategic island at the entrance to the Red Sea

Bodies removed from morgues and placed at the compound to make it appear as though forces were responsible for the fatalities. hoping to counter criticism, president obama told reporters in chile today that allied forces will transfer coalition command to nato in the coming days. >> how quickly this transfer takes place will be determined by the recommendations of our commanding officers. that the mission has been completed. let me emphasize that we anticipate this transition to take place in a ...

Coalition command center. as of now, though, apparently there is sort of a shared planning amongst those partners involved in operation odyssey dawn. no actual coalition command established as of yet. but there is expected tobacco ligs, single coalition command named over the coming days. >> diana, thank you. well, opponents of libyas government are using any means available to get their message out. >> did someone help you with this? >> actually i just started this step by step. i dont know h...

Were striking targets south of benghazi, that is where were enforcing the no-fly zone. >> u.s. involved in air strikes -- >> its difficult to tell at this time. we want again, as we mentioned were leading edge of the coalition effort that we will transition to the rest of the constitutional. its too difficult coalition and as countries go in. they get the numbers to take over the brunt of the mission. >> is it days or weeks? >> im not going to drag it through a time line at this time. >> when yo...

The coalition throughout, transfer the command to a coalition command and then start using more of the capabilities that the coalition nations dont provide that we have, shift the main effort. that would be tankers, electronic support aircraft, i is sr, things of that nature. i would not rule out that we will probably most likely be continuing some portion of the fighter mission as well, but not the preponderance of the force. >> could you specify the, you know, specialized aircraft. you mention...

Coalition throughout. transfer the command to a coalition command. and then start using more of the capabilities that the coalition nations dont provide that we have. so shift the main effort. tankers, electronic support aircraft, isr, things of that nature. i would not rule out that we will probably most likely be continuing some sort of the fighter mission, as well. but not the preponderance of the force. >> you mentioned hawkeyes. are you specify what -- >> many nations will be putting their ...

Hours leading up to today theres communications or talk to try to talk that down. >> we are on the leading edge of coalition operations where the united states under general hamm in africa command is in charge, hes in command of this at this point. in the coming days, we intend to transition it to a coalition command. >> can you specify how many british ships were involved compared to the u.s. ships? >> we had one british submarine. >> and the rest were all u.s.? >> yes, maam. >> and the number ...

Operations -- >> we are on the leading edge of coalition operations, where the united states under general hamm under his command at this point and in the coming days, well transition to the coalition command. >> we had one british submarine. i dont have that in front of me the exact numbers. >> couple more minutes, tony. >> how sophisticated was this air defense system compared to iraq? give us a sense of that. >> this is integrated air and missile defense system, much like the one that iraq ha...

Theyre going to talk about this in some other fashion. in fact, if it is a war, were not involved despite the fact that were the leading edge of it. and theyre going to work very, very hard to do what general courtney said were going to do. to transfer the running of this operation to the african command to a consortium of countries -- >> coalition command. >> worldwide coalition command. >> general mccaffrey, is that even possibly? is that logistically feasible that you have the united states r...