...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...
by Iran-backed 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...
rebels fell near a mosque at the Al-Attaya village in Samtah, Jazan, at 1.10 p.m. on Friday.
The incident happened when worshippers were coming out of the mosque after performing the congregational prayers, Maj. Yahya bin Abdullah Al-Qahtani, front man for the Civil Defense in Jazan, said, adding that the mosque was damaged.
Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
the Saudi-led coalition denied claims that it carried out a strike on the historic old quarter of Yemen's capital Sanaa on Friday.
"Wudn't us."
"For sure we did not conduct any operation inside (the) city," said Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri, a consultant in the Defense Ministry, told AFP.
Al-Assiri's comments came after claims that the coalition forces had carried out a bombing raid killing five people and destroying three houses in the UNESCO-listed heritage site.
In another development, a United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
statement said that peace talks between the warring parties have been postponed to Monday from Sunday as one delegation is arriving late in Geneva.
Earlier, the world body announced that the UN special envoy would hold separate "proximity" talks with Yemen's two main warring parties in Geneva on Sunday, in the hope of bringing them to the same table eventually.
"Due to unforeseen circumstances, one of the Yemeni delegations will now arrive in Geneva on Sunday evening, June 14. Therefore, United Nations Secretary-General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
, and his Special Envoy, Ismail Ould Chiekh Ahmed, will begin consultations with the Yemeni delegations on Monday morning," said a UN statement issued in Geneva where the three-day talks are to be held.