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| Saudi-led strikes kill at least 12 Yemeni rebels |
| 2015-04-28 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Saudi-led warplanes hit anti-government forces in south 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... Monday, killing at least 12 Shiite Huthi snuffies and allied forces as fighting continued across several provinces, military and local sources said. Coalition aircraft pounded five schools converted by rebels into military bases in Ataq, the capital of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province, military sources said. The raids killed at least 12 Houthis and troops 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... , who has allied himself with the northern snuffies against the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, the sources said. Also in Abyan, warplanes targeted rebel positions on the outskirts of Loder, the province's second largest city, witnesses said. Clashes were ongoing southwest of Loder between rebels and southern forces that have sided with Hadi, they added. Fierce fighting also raged in the central city of Taez, with the warring parties using tanks and rocket-propelled grenades inside residential areas, local officials said. Medics said at least 16 non-combatants were killed in Taez on Sunday. Coalition warplanes meanwhile hit rebel positions east of Taez overnight, witnesses said. |
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