The D Brief: Why Yemen strikes ended; Gitmo flights, tallied; Spectrum battle; Turkey’s PKK disbands; And a bit more.

Behind Trump’s Yemen retreat: The U.S. military nearly lost “several” F-16s and an F-35 fighter jet to air defense systems during Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aborted Operation Rough Rider, U.S. officials told the New York Times. The air campaign ran from March 15 to May 5, when President Trump decided he “had had enough,” according to the Times.Trump ordered a halt to those U.S. airstrikes on May 5. The following day he informed reporters at the Whit