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International relations are the key factor in today's first story. It concerns the civil war in Yemen that ramped up four years ago. It's torn apart the Middle Eastern country. This isn't a simple battle between Yemeni government forces and a rebel group that wants a new government. That might have been how it started, but terrorists groups like ISIS and Al-Qaida are believed to be operating in Yemen. A famine has struck the country, civilians are starving and the war has become international.

Saudi Arabia is leading a group of nations that are attacking the rebels in Yemen. And Iran is believed to be supporting those rebels. The United States is not directly involved in Yemen, but it has given military support to Saudi Arabia and its allies. A recent CNN investigation accused Saudi Arabia of providing some American weapons and equipment to militias in Yemen. This would break the rules of America's arm sales to Saudi Arabia, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. But the top U.S. commander in the Middle East says it wouldn't be a good idea for America to stop supporting the Saudi-led group. There's a close relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, and it goes back more than half a century.