[AnNahar] The Saudi-led coalition in 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...
has dropped arms and ammunition to pro-government fighters in Taez, the central city besieged by Shiite Houthis, military sources said Wednesday.
Coalition planes "parachuted three shipments of arms and ammunition to help our fighters in southwest Taez," a source told AFP, adding they included RPG launchers and a variety of weapons.
The airdrop took place before dawn on Tuesday and Wednesday, he said.
Clashes raged Wednesday in Taez between the rebels and fighters allied with President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, another military source said.
A Saudi-led Arab coalition carried out a fresh wave of air strikes Wednesday on Taez, as fierce fighting raged on the ground in the city which has remained in the hands of fighters loyal to Hadi.
In the evening, coalition warplanes bombed rebel positions in the west and south of Taez, according to a military source.
A main target in the evening was the headquarters of the 35th Brigade, near the central prison and a strategic hill overlooking a residential area.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
in Yemen's second city Aden suspected Islamists set off a sound bomb in the courtyard of a university building, causing panic among students, witnesses said.
It came after radical Islamists who support 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group had issued a threat this week to target academic institutions. 
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