Senators will try to pull U.S. from Yemen war

Soldiers stand guard at the site of a car bomb attack outside the headquarters of a counter-terrorism unit in Aden, Yemen February 25, 2018. REUTERS/Fawaz Salman

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers unveiled plans on Wednesday to use a decades-old law to force a Senate vote on whether to pull the country out of a foreign conflict, in this case the civil war in Yemen.

Republican Senator Mike Lee, independent Bernie Sanders and Democrat Chris Murphy said they would make the first attempt to take advantage of a provision in the 1973 War Powers Act that allows any senator to introduce a resolution on whether to withdraw U.S. armed forces from a conflict not authorized by Congress.