Yemen has reportedly barred the United States from running any more ground operations in the country after a US raid there left at least 15 women and children dead. A Navy SEAL was also killed.

Yemeni officials and citizens are angry over the deaths of bystanders in the Jan. 29 attack by US special forces on a location where some al Qaeda operatives were holed up, the New York Times noted in the report Tuesday.

The White House hailed the raid as a success, saying it netted valuable intelligence on terror operations, but reports said that its key target, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula head Qassim al-Rimi, was neither killed nor captured.

Despite the ground-force ban, Yemen will still allow US air operations.