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| Coalition allies retake Aden airport from Houthis |
| 2015-07-15 |
| [ARABNEWS] Yemeni forces recaptured Aden's international airport and some city districts from 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 fighters on Tuesday, in a sudden advance after months of stalemate, the exiled government said. Yemenis on social media reported celebrations in cities across the country's south, where refugees from Aden have fled, and in other areas where local fighters are still battling the Houthis and army units loyal to 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... . Houthi-run Maseera television reported that the Houthis had chosen to quit the city after "cleansing it of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... " in an apparent admission of the militia's retreat. Photographs on southern Yemeni media, which Rooters could not immediately verify, appeared to show a column of armored vehicles advancing along a street in Aden, where the fighting has mostly involved guerrilla fighters in civilian clothes. The fighting followed the collapse of a humanitarian truce ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truceis not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefiredoesn't mean you have to stop shooting... brokered by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... . Local fighters aligned with exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi took control of Aden's central district of Khormaksar, and aid sources reported fighting around the port area. Backed by air support from a Saudi-led coalition, the forces launched a wide-ranging assault in Aden this week to reclaim territory held by the Iranian-allied Houthis. "Aden International Airport and Khormaksar have been cleared of Houthi and Saleh elements by armed forces backing Yemen's legitimacy and the popular resistance forces, in coordination with and with direct support by the coalition," Yemeni government front man Rajeh Badi said. He said he expected Aden to be cleared completely within the coming days. A coalition of Arab states has been bombarding Houthi forces, Yemen's dominant power, since late March in a bid to reinstate Hadi. It has also run training programs for Yemeni soldiers loyal to Hadi and dropped arms to local forces fighting the Houthis. Hadi was ousted from power when the Houthis took over the capital Sanaa in September. He then fled to Riyadh as Houthi forces closed in on Aden, where he had sought refuge. A UN-brokered cease-fire to allow delivery of aid to a city desperately short of food, medicine and other necessities collapsed on Monday after 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... said it did not recognize the truce and continued air strikes. "The fighting in Aden began in the morning as the forces approached Aden from different positions," said Ali Al-Ahmadi, front man for the Southern Popular Resistance, which is defending Aden from the Houthis. "After violent festivities that continued for hours the forces were able to enter the airport and Badr base and they killed a large number of the militias." The UN's World Health Organization managed to deliver medical supplies to Aden but it said food rations have been delayed. |
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