...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...
said Sunday more than 260 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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey 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...
fighters were killed in Yemen in the past three days near the strategic city of Marib.
"Thirty-six military vehicles were destroyed and more than 264" Houthi fighters were killed in strikes in the past 72 hours in al-Jawba, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Marib, and al-Kassara, 30 kilometers to the northwest, the coalition said, quoted by the Saudi Press Agency.
The Iran-backed Houthis rarely comment on losses, and AFP could not independently verify the toll.
The coalition has for the past two weeks reported almost daily strikes around Marib, the internationally recognized government’s last bastion in oil-rich northern Yemen.
It say hundreds of Houthis have been killed in the fighting.
The Houthis began a major push to seize Marib in February, and have renewed their offensive since September after a lull.
The Yemeni civil war began in 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa, 120 kilometers west of Marib, prompting coalition forces to intervene to prop up the government the following year.
Tens of thousands of people have died and millions have been displaced, in what the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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He claimed that during an operation the rebels had killed 550 pro-government fighters, maimed 1,200, and taken 90 prisoners, without specifying a time frame.
AFP could not independently verify the figures given by the rebels.
The coalition has for the past two weeks reported almost daily air strikes around Marib.
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