| Followers of an anti-U.S. cleric ambushed and killed 11 Yemeni soldiers searching for them in a mountainous area of the Arab state, an official said on Tuesday. He said the troops, one of them a colonel, had been hunting for rebel followers of cleric Hussein al-Houthi in the mountains of Saada province when they were killed in the overnight attack. Saada officials said the cleric's brother, Abdulkareem al-Houthi, was killed in clashes with government forces on Monday and the rebel group's military leader Abdullah Mosleh was also killed. Yemeni forces launched an operation to capture Houthi in June. Earlier this month, they seized the rebels' last stronghold but have yet to seize the fugitive cleric and a handful of his followers. |