[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The UAE told the UN Security Council on Friday that the liberation of Yemen’s key port city of Hodeidah from the 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...
militia was critical to reengaging them in UN-backed peace talks.
Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s Permanent Representative to the UN sent a letter to the Security Council President addressing the Houthi delegation’s no-show at the peace talks in Geneva last week.
"The Houthis’ ’no-show’ rebuke to the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
and to a meaningful political process is a serious setback and a significant disappointment for the Yemeni people and the Coalition, who are eager to find an end to the conflict," Nusseibeh said in the letter seen by Al Arabiya English.
"Unfortunately, this is only the latest Houthi broken promise to re-engage in a political process since they derailed the political transition process in 2014, turned to force, and triggered the humanitarian and political crisis 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...faces today.
She added: "While military action should be the last resort in the Coalition’s view, the liberation of Hodeida is critical to reengaging the Houthis in peace talks. To that end, carefully calibrated and with a clear purpose toward restarting the political process, Yemeni Government forces backed by the Coalition have now intensified military operations against the Houthis in the Hodeida area and on other fronts."