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Arabia
Last Houthi stronghold in Jawf liberated
2016-10-02
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s national army and the pro-government Popular Resistance Committees have liberated on Saturday al-Gail village in the northern governorate of al-Jawf, the last key stronghold for the 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 ...
militias and their allied forces loyal to the deposed 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...
, the Yemeni official news agency quoted a military source as saying.

"The national army and resistance fighters, backed by the [Saudi-led] Arab Coalition’s jet fighters, launched an offensive on Saturday morning on the sites of the Houthi militia in al-Gail, in which they liberated the village," the military source said.

He added that scores of Houthi militias were killed and maimed, while dozens escaped the battlefield.

Citing military sources, Agence La Belle France-Presse said the festivities, which saw the pro-government forces recapturing large parts of Ghail, killed 11 militias and five government loyalists.

Jawf is on the 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...
and is mostly controlled by loyalist forces.

In the Bab al-Mandab region itself, fighting on Saturday killed three loyalists and maimed 17, other military sources said.

The festivities took place in the mountainous Kahbub area overlooking the strait. Five rebels were also killed, the loyalist military sources said.

AFP could not verify the rebel toll from independent sources, and the turbans rarely acknowledge their losses.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.

Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?

Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.

No, he said. Do you?...

the Saudi-led Arab Coalition have dubbed attack by the Houthis on a UAE ship carrying aid Saturday in the Bab al-Mandab strait as a "dangerous indication." The coalition said civilians onboard the ship were rescued.

Loyalist forces recaptured Perim island in the Bab al-Mandab strait in October last year, gaining a foothold on the strategic shipping lane which connects the Suez Canal and Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

But the militias still control some of the heights which overlook the strait from the mainland, where there has been fierce fighting in recent days.

Military sources in 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...
told AFP that the militias shelled a loyalist military camp in the Bab al-Mandab area on Saturday.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.

Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?

Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.

No, he said. Do you?...

a jacket wallah targeted a residential area in Yemen's port city of Aden on Saturday, killing at least one civilian and wounding others.

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