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| Saudi-led coalition jets bomb Houthis in Yemeni capital - residents | |
| 2015-09-07 | |
| [IN.REUTERS] Saudi-led coalition jets bombed a 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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... military position and army bases in the Yemeni capital Sanaa through the night and into Sunday morning in what appeared to be further retaliation for the killing of dozens of coalition soldiers two days ago. The air strikes targeted troops loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , an ally of the Houthis, and a Houthi base in what was the al-Imam University, a religious school in northern Sanaa, residents said. Residents said kabooms could be heard all night and buildings had been levelled, but the bombing stopped around noon. A Rooters news hound said there were unconfirmed reports of two deaths. The al-Sabeen maternity and children's hospital said it had also sustained damage, with patients trapped inside by the bombardment, and appealed to international organizations to help it evacuate patients. "The hospital had been badly damaged due to the bombardment of areas around it," the Houthi-run state news agency quoted a hospital statement as saying. The Saudi-led coalition says it does not target civilian facilities. But on Saturday, at least 27 members of two families were killed in Sanaa by air strikes targeting Houthi positions in the city, according to hospital officials.
Also targeted were Huthi positions in the northern areas of Sufan and al-Nahda, forcing scores of residents to flee, as well as rebel positions near the Saudi and Emirati embassies, witnesses said. Elsewhere, coalition warplanes hit rebel positions in Bayhan, in the southern province of Shabwa, military sources said. In the neighboring province of Baida, 27 people were killed -- 14 rebels, 10 loyalist fighters and three civilians -- in two days of coalition raids on the town of Mukayris, military sources said. | |
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