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Saudi-led coalition says killed 160 Houthis in battle for Marib
[AlAhram] The Saudi-led coalition supporting 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... 's government said Saturday it had killed 160 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 in strikes south of the strategic city of Marib, where loyalists say rebels have made advances. "We carried out 32 strikes... in Abdiya over the past 24 hours," the coalition said, cited by the official Saudi Press Agency, adding that "11 military vehicles were destroyed and more than 160 terrorist elements eliminated". The rebels rarely comment on losses and the toll could not be independently verified by AFP. Related: Marib: 2021-10-13 Good Morning Marib: 2021-10-13 At least 134 Yemen rebels dead in strikes south of Marib: coalition Marib: 2021-10-12 Fighting south of Yemen’s Marib results in 156 members of the Iran-backed Houthi militia being killed Posted by: trailing wife 2021-10-17 |
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