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| TIMELINE: More than five months of conflict in Yemen | |
| 2015-09-05 | |
...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... since a Saudi-coalition intervened after Huthi sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians overran the capital Sanaa and advanced on Aden, the second biggest city. UN figures put the overall number of dead in the conflict at more than 4,300, including 400 children, and the number of displaced at 1.5 million. On March 26, 2015, 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... begins Operation Decisive Storm with air strikes on the rebels after forging a coalition of nine countries to defend embattled Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. Iran opposes the intervention. On April 14, the UN Security Council imposes an arms embargo on the rebels and demands that they relinquish seized territory. Riyadh says on April 21 it has suspended the military campaign, but resumes air strikes a day later in Yemen's third city Taez. Huthis bombard the Saudi border town of Najran, killing several people on May 5 in their first such attack since the coalition operation began. On June 16, Al-Qaeda confirms that its leader in Yemen, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, has been killed in a US drone strike, and names military chief Qassem al-Rimi as the regional affiliate's new leader. A day later, more than 30 people are killed in Sanaa as five coordinated blasts claimed by the 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.... group target Shia mosques and offices. On March 20, IS carried out its first attacks on Shia mosques, killing 142 people. Since then other Shia mosques have been targeted, the latest on September 3 leaving 32 dead. On July 17, the exiled Yemeni premier announces from Riyadh the "liberation" of the province of Aden after more than four months of fighting. On July 22 pro-government forces, backed by Saudi air strikes, strengthen their hold on Aden. With the airport and port back in loyalist hands, the coalition is able to ship in growing amounts of humanitarian aid. The third ceasefire since the offensive began breaks down on July 28 after five days, with coalition jets hitting rebel positions north of Aden. A five-day truce in mid-May also failed to stop the fighting and 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... initiated by the UN from July 10 never materialised. Forces loyal to the exiled government retake a fifth southern province, extending gains against the rebels who still control the capital. They are currently fighting for control of Taez, in the southwest and Marib east of Sanaa. On September 4 an arms depot kaboom that the rebels say was a rocket attack kills 45 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates, in the country's heaviest loss since joining the coalition. Bahrain announces that five of its soldiers were killed in southern Saudi Arabia, but Yemen's exiled presidency says the Bahrainis died in the blast that killed the Emiratis. | |
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