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The Houthis, a rebel army fighting against Saudi-led interests in Yemen, claimed credit for launching the attacks on Saturday. However, the U.S. government now says it believes the assault was launched from Iran, and that it may have involved cruise missiles rather than drones.The strikes centered on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq refinery. Abqaiq is the world’s largest oil refinery, processing about two-thirds of the total Saudi supply each day. Saudi Arabia is the world’s second-largest producer of crude oil behind the United States.Several large Saudi oil fields were also attacked. Those attacks, along with the disruption of the Abqaiq refinery...

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman told a House panel Wednesday that President Barack Obama has “no coherent” anti-terrorism strategy in embattled countries where al-Qaida is gaining new influence, and that’s endangering the United States. “I do not, today, see a credible or coherent U.S. strategy right now, for exactly those countries—Syria, Iraq and Libya—that most threaten to emerge as al-Qaida’s newest and most dangerous footholds,” Connecticut’s Lieberman, who retired from the Senate last year, told the Homeland Security Committee. “If we don’t do something more than we’re doing now, they’re going to tip over,” Lieberman added of those countries. And if...