[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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...
’s Apache helicopters killed dozens of 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 Republican Guard officers ‐ who are loyal to 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...
‐ in targeted air strikes on Thursday at the border near the southwestern Saudi province of Jazan.
Saudi forces also repelled an attack by militias off the Yemeni border, an Al Arabiya News correspondent reported, which targeted Asir region, south of Makkah.
The Apache attacks come after a Houthi rocket landed on Wednesday in Jazan and injured a Yemeni resident in al-Tawal village.
Saudi Arabia has been ramping up counter-attacks in recent days after militias launched several cross border rocket attacks.
Clashes in Taiz
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier...
six Houthi forces of Evil and their Saleh allies were killed and 13 maimed in festivities with the Popular Resistance ‐ who are backed by Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government ‐ in the western province of Taiz, south of Yemen’s capital Sanaa.
Yemen’s government led by Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr returned to Aden from exile in Saudi Arabia last month.
Hadi and his cabinet fled to Saudi Arabia, which led a Saudi-led Arab coalition against the Houthis in March 2015. After 18 months of fighting, the Houthis and their allies control most of the north - including the capital Sanaa - while forces loyal to Hadi and the popular resistance control the south.
Major setbacks
A year and a half into Yemen’s ongoing war between the Saudi-backed government of Hadi and Iran-backed Houthi militias have caused several loses on both sides, however recent months have seen the Houthi movement suffer major setbacks after the deaths of senior militia leaders.
Military analysts consider the formation of a national salvation government by the militias as a response to the crisis caused by their losses, AlArabiya.net reported.