Yemen's president fires head of special forces

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s president fired the head of the country’s special forces Monday following a botched attempt to disperse a sit-in of Shiite rebels that blocked the capital’s airport road.

In presidential decrees, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi appointed Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ghadra, an Interior Ministry official, as the new head of the special forces. Its fired commander, Maj. Gen. Fadl al-Qoussi, was demoted to assistant to a deputy interior minister.