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| Coalition Air Strikes Hit Yemen Defense Ministry in Sanaa and Elsewhere |
| 2015-04-10 |
| [AnNahar] Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Thursday hit Yemen's defense ministry in the capital Sanaa which is controlled by Iranian catspaws and allied troops, witnesses said. Three kabooms were heard as warplanes hit the building in central Sanaa and thick smoke billowed over the area, the witnesses said. The attack was part of raids that struck positions across the capital, including a base of the elite Elite Republican Guards in Fajj Attan, in south Sanaa, according to witnesses. The Republican Guard is a force that has remained 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 stepped down in 2012 following nationwide protests against his three-decade rule and who is allied with the Houthis against the government. A food supply building belonging to the army in western Sanaa was also targeted in an air raid, other witnesses said. Earlier in the day, a base for the Republican Guard in Arhab, north of the capital, was also hit. The attacks come as the an air campaign led by Riyadh in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi entered its third week. Earlier, at least 20 Shiite Houthis were killed in southern 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... Thursday by Saudi-led coalition air strikes and an ambush by pro-government militia, army and loyalist militia sources said. "Fourteen Huthis were killed in eight dawn air raids by the coalition on their positions near Dar Saad," a northern district of the port city of Aden, a loyalist army source told AFP. In the nearby city of Daleh, fighters allied with runaway President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi attacked a Huthi position, killing six Lion of Islams, said Southern Movement chief Nasser al-Shuaibi. AFP could not immediately obtain independent confirmation, and the Huthis rarely acknowledge their losses. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... coalition air strikes on the southern Shabwa province hit Muhra military camp, which is controlled by troops loyal to Saleh. Following the raid, some 300 fighters fled the base and deployed unopposed in the bustling provincial capital of Ataq, where they raised Huthi flags after seizing local government and police installations, military sources said. Witnesses said rustics led by chief Hasan Banan, who is close to the Huthis, have cooperated with the rebels. The World Health Organization says at least 643 people were killed and 2,226 maimed in fighting between March 19 and April 6. And UNICEF has said at least 74 children were confirmed to have died and a further were 44 maimed since air strikes began on March 26. |
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