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Fresh fighting in Yemen’s Marib province leaves dozens dead
[al-Monitor] Fierce festivities in Yemen...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... between pro-government forces and Iran's Houthi sock puppets  ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels on Tuesday killed dozens of people on both sides. The deadly violence in Marib province left at least 38 fighters dead, according to officials who spoke with the News Agency that Dare Not be Named. After more than three months of relative calm, the Iran-aligned Houthis are advancing on the oil rich-provinces of Marib and Jawf. Earlier this month, the Houthis took control of Hazm, the capital of Jawf province in northern Yemen, in a major setback to the Saudi-backed government. The festivities in Jawf displaced around 70,000 people to neighboring Marib province, according to the International Red Thingy. Political analyst and Sanaa-based researcher Abdul-Bari Taher says the fighting has reached a tipping point. "The situation is heading toward dangerous escalation because the war has now reached a point of explosion," Taher told al-Monitor. The renewed fighting in north and central Yemen threatens to worsen the humanitarian crisis in the world’s poorest nation, which has been ravaged by war since 2014 when the Houthis, backed by Iran, took control of Yemen's capital and captured large swaths of the country from pro-government forces. Posted by: Fred 2020-03-19 |
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