[DAWN] Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
on Thursday, killing five Æthiopian refugees and wounding ten, a local official said.
Artillery fire and air strikes hit the town of Maydee along Yemen's border with Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
in Hajja province, a stronghold of the 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...
militia that a Saudi-led Arab alliance has been bombing for eight weeks.
Saudi forces and Houthi gunnies exchanged heavy artillery and rocket fire, and Arab air strikes hit Houthi positions inside Yemen on Thursday, violence that may complicate plans for United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
-backed peace talks set for May 28 in Geneva.
The Saudi-Yemen frontier has in some cases become a frontline between the two sides, and the Houthis' Al Masira TV channel broadcast footage on Wednesday it said showed its fighters entering a Saudi border post after being fired on by Saudi tanks and helicopters.
"[Saudi] military hardware was deployed, but after a few moments they vanished, fleeing the Yemeni advance attacking them," the channel said.
There was no immediate Saudi confirmation.
Tribal sources along the Saudi-Yemeni border said more than 15 Houthi fighters and at least one Saudi officer were killed in intense festivities on Wednesday.
Residents and local fighters opposing the Houthis said air strikes hit a southern air base controlled by the militia and their positions outside the southern city of Aden on Thursday.
Tribal and militia fighters in Yemen's south support the Arab campaign and back president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who lives in exile with his government in Saudi Arabia.
UN chief
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
on Wednesday announced talks between the warring Yemeni parties in Geneva on May 28, and both Hadi's government and the Houthis have indicated they will attend.