CAIRO, March 27 (UPI) -- Egypt's army, the largest in the Arab world, is prepared to send troops to Yemen to aid the Saudi-led support of the Yemeni government, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said in a statement.
Saudi Arabia and at least nine other Arab nations are a coalition fighting Iranian-supported Shiite rebels known as Houthis, who overtook Yemen's government in January. The coalition began airstrikes of Houthi targets and a blockade of the Yemeni coast, as elected President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi escaped his country and fled to Saudi Arabia.