RIYADH: The United States military has slashed the number of intelligence advisers directly supporting the Saudi-led coalition’s air war in Yemen, the US Navy said on Saturday, following concerns over civilian casualties.

The reassignment of personnel, around June, came because “there was not the same sort of requests coming in for assistance”, Fifth Fleet spokesman Lieutenant Ian McConnaughey told Agence-France Presse from its base in Bahrain.

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