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Houthi senior militia leader killed near Najran
2016-10-05
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Security sources have confirmed that a senior 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 ...
militia leader was killed in the frontlines near Najran but on Yemeni grounds.

Abdullah Qayed al-Fadeea was killed early Tuesday morning after Saudi-led Arab coalition forces targeted him and his convoy in a strike.

He was considered among the high ranks of the Houthi militias and was a battle leader for a number of military groups, as well as a deputy general supervisor on the frontline battle with Najran.

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...
rocket attack kills six civilians in Taez
Six non-combatants were killed and eight maimed on Monday when two rockets fired by Houthi rebels hit a popular market in Taez, military and medical sources said.

Three children were among those killed in the kabooms outside a post office in the Bir Bacha district of the southwestern city, they said.

Taez, the country's third city, is almost completely surrounded by the Iran-backed Iranian catspaws and their allies, backers of 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...
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