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Arabia
Loyalist Forces Chase Yemen Rebels after Seizing Airbase
2015-08-06
[AnNahar] Pro-government forces pursued fleeing Shiite Huthi fighters in south
And the Huthis are now under even more pressure from the coalition after hundreds of Gulf Arab troops, mostly from the United Arab Emirates, disembarked in Aden at the weekend along with tanks and artillery.
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...
Wednesday, military sources said, as they looked to press recent gains against the rebels, including retaking a key airbase.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Bet the "Gulf Troops" are Egyptors.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-08-06 19:16  

#3  Iran should have held off till Zero folded like the cheap suit he is. Then they could have backed up the Houthis for real.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-08-06 11:07  

#2  When the Houthis moved from the northern province, where they were in a majority, and occupied Sanaa, and then moved on Aden, they were committing ethnic suicide. They can not hold the land they occupied, and now the Saudis will not relent until they destroy the impoverished Houthi homeland and safeguard the northern Saudi Arabia-Yemen border.
Posted by: Clomp Omagum5939   2015-08-06 10:14  

#1  Sounds like the tide's turning? Good thing Obama's in a rush to release those billions so the Iranians can resupply their puppets. Hudna!
Posted by: Frank G on the road   2015-08-06 09:31  

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