Two high-ranking officials in the General People's Congress party, or GPC, which holds a majority of the seats in Parliament, said the talks ended in the evening with no deal.
The Houthis, a minority group whose bully boyz last year overran the capital, San'a, had set the Wednesday deadline, threatening to take power by force and set up a government of their choosing if a compromise wasn't in place by then.
But a leading Houthi
...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 Jews...
official said the group would likely allow more time for talks to take place and wouldn't make a unilateral move to seize power.
Houthi opponents said they had refused to back down from their demand that Yemen's parliamentary system be preserved. The group, they said, wanted to scrap the government and adopt a different system that cemented their hold on power in the majority-Sunni nation.
After the talks ended, the Houthis' Revolutionary Committee said it would announce in the next few days "the beginning of a series of steps involving rule of the country which will take place responsibly and will not exclude others."
The U.S. is concerned about Yemen's growing uncertainty because Mr. Hadi's government had been a key partner in counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
, or AQAP. The Yemeni terror group grabbed credit for January's attack on the Gay Paree offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe....
The Houthis have also fought against AQAP, but have been critical about U.S.-led drone strikes, which have continued despite the recent turmoil. The U.S. has also opened indirect lines of communication and intelligence-sharing with the Houthis, said officials on both sides.