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Yemen tribesmen kill 18 Houthi fighters in ambush
2015-06-03
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Armed rustics killed 18 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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
fighters in an ambush in Yemen's central province of Ibb Tuesday, residents said, in one of the deadliest ground attacks in over two months of war.

The attack hit a convoy of snuffies and allied army troops in the town of Qaeda while they were en route to the city of Taiz, a flashpoint of festivities between Yemen's dominant Houthis and armed backers of exiled President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi.
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