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2021-03-22 Arabia
After Losses in Marib, Houthis Sever Communication Lines between Sanaa, Govt Regions
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Battles in the Marib province, east of the 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...
i capital Sanaa, are continuing to exhaust the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militias.

Fierce fighting continued on Saturday, especially in western and northwestern parts of the province. The national army, meanwhile, continues to make advances in the southwestern Taiz province.

The Houthis persist on ignoring international and United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
calls for calm in Marib and demands for a ceasefire that would pave the way for peace talks.

The legitimate government has cast doubt on the sincerity of these calls after the militias escalated their attacks and the international community’s failure to take any action to deter them.

Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani said: "The Houthi escalation demonstrates that its decision to go to war does not lie in its hands and that it is simply a proxy to carry out Iran’s expansionist agenda."

He added that the Houthis are just an armed proxy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and that they are being managed by Tehran’s so-called envoy in Sanaa. He accused the militias of harming 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 threatening international marine navigation.

Moreover, he noted that the Houthis escalated their attacks after the US administration of Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
decided to revoke the militias’ terrorist designation.

This demonstrates that the militias do not believe in peace and their ideology is based on killing, making them unqualified to play a constructive role in peace, remarked Eryani.

The escalation demands that the international community blacklist the Houthis and provide serious support for the government in its efforts to end their coup and reclaim the Yemeni state, he urged.

As the minister voiced his plea, the Houthis severed communication lines connecting Sanaa, which is under their control, with government-held regions, including Marib.

Observers interpreted the move as retaliation to the militias’ losses on the ground and failure to advance in oil- and gas-rich Marib.

Local field sources told Asharq al-Awsat that the Yemeni military, with air cover from the Saudi-led Arab coalition, repelled on Saturday new Houthi offensives in western and northwester Marib.

Military media reported that more than 83 gunnies were killed in the battles that lasted more than 35 hours.

A military front man said that the army’s strategy has succeeded in depleting Houthi forces.

In Taiz, the army liberated several hills in the southeastern front as the militias retreated from the area. The military has launched operations in Taiz, which has been besieged by the Houthis for years.
Posted by Fred 2021-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top
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