The United States is evacuating its remaining 100 special operations forces from Yemen, amid a deteriorating security situation in the country, CNN reported on Sunday, citing sources in the region familiar with the matter.
The troops, who had conducted counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda and its affiliated militant groups, were the last US forces stationed in Yemen, Christian Science Monitor reported.
The United States closed its embassy in Sanaa last month, after Houthi rebels took over the Yemeni capital.
On Saturday, Yemen's President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi called on the Houthi militia to leave the capital Sanaa and for its allied militias to quit government ministries in his first televised speech since escaping house arrest last month.
Hadi urged all parties in Yemen to attend peace talks in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, but also vowed to plant the national flag in the Houthi stronghold of Saadeh, in a comment the group is likely to interpret as a call to arms.
The Houthis, who are allied to Iran, seized Sanaa in September and then besieged Hadi's residence in January, leading him to offer his resignation and resulting in his house arrest by the group before he escaped to Aden last month.