Experts are reporting all U.S. friendly-intelligence sources going dark in the country, as they are forced to flee or go underground.
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Sanaa, Yemen (CNN)Rebels seized a Yemeni airport and set up checkpoints throughout the area Sunday as a U.N. envoy warned that the country was at “the edge of civil war.”
Houthi militants took over the airport in Taiz as they swept through the city and surrounding province, two officials with the Taiz provincial government said.
One civilian was killed and 82 others wounded when the rebels fired at local residents protesting their presence, the officials said.
The Shiite rebels have also seized security and intelligence buildings in Taiz, the officials said. Taiz, about 390 kilometers (240 miles) south of Sanaa, is Yemen’s cultural capital.
At a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting on Yemen Sunday, a U.N. envoy said the country was in a “rapid downward spiral” at “the edge of civil war.”
“I urge all sides at this time of rising tensions and inflammatory rhetoric to appreciate the gravity of the situation and to deescalate by exercising maximum restraint. … Peaceful dialogue is the only way forward,” said Jamal Benomar, the U.N.’s special adviser on Yemen.
On Saturday the State Department said the U.S. military had pulled its remaining personnel out of Yemen due to the deteriorating security situation.