US Politics in Trump era
Publisher: The Guardian
Author: Ewen MacAskill
3 Feb 2017
Questions mount over botched Yemen raid approved by Trump
US military officials say Trump approved counter terrorism operation without sufficient intelligence or ground support. The US military has launched an investigation into the scale of civilian casualties in a botched special forces raid against a suspected al-Qaida base in Yemen, the first such mission to be approved by Donald Trump, as questions mount over the operation.