Sana’a: An official source at the Yemeni presidency has denied a story published in Al Sharie newspaper in its Sunday issue under a front page headline: “Yemen is rear supply base for the US army”.

Yemen’s official news agency, SABA, quoted an official source in the presidency as saying “promoting such lies, strange fabrications and imaginative scenarios reveals the real objectives of those who stand behind it”.

The source called on the media to put forward objective facts in order to support the stability and security of the country instead of creating artificial excitement and promoting malicious slander and lies.

The source denounced the Al Sharie story, calling it misleading information attributed to a military source after the recent visit of the commander of the US Central Military Command to Sana’a, leading to allegations that the Americans asked for the use of an area within Yemen as a rear supply base for the US army.