...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...by the Saudi-led coalition fighting against 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...
movement, residents said.
The Saudi-led coalition, which has intervened in Yemen’s war since 2015 to try to restore president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power, has conducted frequent air strikes and has often hit civilians, although denies ever doing so intentionally.
The Houthis, a movement derived from northern Yemen’s Zaidi Shia Moslem community, have controlled much of Yemen including the capital Sanaa since driving Hadi out three years ago.
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 its Sunni Moslem allies ‐ including the United Arab Emirates ‐ say the Houthis are aligned with Shia Iran and pose a threat to the region.
Residents said four civilians had been killed in an air strike in the suburbs of the northern city of Saada, the main Houthi stronghold.
Five girls were killed in another
that targeted a field in the west of the country, in the western Hodeidah district.On Tuesday, airstrikes killed five civilians in north of the country.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than two million and driven the country ‐ already the poorest on the Arabian Peninsula ‐ to the verge of widespread famine.