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Houthi commander dies in Taiz
Taiz-A senior Houthi military operative, who goes by the nom de guerre of Abu Majed, was killed in clashes with popular resistance fighters on Wednesday in west Yemen’s Taiz city, the Yemeni army announced.Resistance media center said that Abu Majed, a senior Houthi military operative, has been killed along with a number of other insurgents. His death came as Houthi militias ramped up their indiscriminate missile attacks on populated neighborhoods of Taiz. Houthi militias and militants loyal to ousted former President Ali Abdullah Saleh targeted the national army and Popular Resistance sites on the outskirts of strategic Han Mountain in the west, battlefield sources told Asharq Al-Awsat. “They were aiming to regain this mountain along with several other sites, yet the forces were able to confront them and inflict human and material losses, including the military leader Nasser al-Kaait,” sources added. In a related development, Houthi militias and Saleh’s forces continued their attacks on Taiz neighborhoods, especially the eastern fronts, which witnessed many conflicts as the militias tried to control different sites for the Popular Resistance. Moreover, violent confrontations were renewed at al-Shaqab front, south Taiz, as militias tried to advance towards army and resistance bases accompanied by heavy artillery cover by militias targeting civilians’ houses. These confrontations left Abdulmalek Ahmed Ibrahim, 60, dead. Seven of his family members, some of them children, were injured. Posted by: badanov 2016-10-28 |
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