[AlAhram] Pro-government forces on Wednesday killed 13 rebel fighters in an ambush in Yemen's south after the gunnies took back several positions in the area, a military source said.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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews...
rebels were travelling in two military vehicles south of Damt, the Daleh province's second-largest city, which they and their allies recaptured on Saturday.
Forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi attacked them with rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns, the source said.
The loyalists, backed by Saudi-led coalition strikes, supplies and troops, pushed the rebels out of Daleh and four other southern provinces in July.
But the rebels this weekend recaptured several positions in the south.
Battles continued in the area Wednesday as the rebels were trying to advance on Daleh's bustling provincial capital, which carries the same name, the military source told AFP.
Other fighting flared in Al-Madaribah on the border between the neighbouring restive Lahj
... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement
and Taez provinces, leaving five rebels and three loyalist fighters dead over the past 24 hours, military sources said.
The coalition, formed in March to halt the rebels' advance across Yemen, has dispatched military reinforcements to Al-Madaribah to prevent it falling to rebel hands, the sources said.
Late Tuesday rebels fired Katyusha rockets at regional military headquarters held by loyalist troops in the oil-rich Marib province east of the capital Sanaa without causing casualties, a military source there said.
Around 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict since March, more than half of them civilians, according to UN estimates.
A new round of UN-brokered 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...
talks to end the conflict is expected to kick off in Geneva or Muscat around mid-November.