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| 36 rebels killed in south Yemen attacks, air strikes |
| 2015-07-10 |
| [Al Ahram] Yemeni fighters allied with exiled President Abd-rabbo Mansour Hadi killed 15 rebels in a Thursday attack on their checkpoints in the country's southern 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, a military source said. In second city Aden, 17 rebels were killed in air strikes by Saudi-led coalition warplanes, according to pro-Hadi military sources. Fighters belonging to the pro-government Popular Resistance Committees in Abyan's Zinjibar attacked checkpoints of the 15th Infantry Brigade, which has defected and joined Iran-backed Shia 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... rebels, the military source said. The southern fighters also besieged the headquarters of the brigade, which was later hit by warplanes from the coalition that launched an air campaign in March backing Hadi. Southern rustics meanwhile killed four Houthi rebels in an ambush Thursday near Ataq, in Shabwa province, a local security source said. 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... have sided with the Houthis, who overran the capital in September and went on to seize control of several regions. The rebels forced Hadi into exile when they advanced in March on the port city of Aden, where he had taken refuge after escaping house arrest in Sanaa. Aden's health chief Al-Khader Laswar said 19 civilians, including three children and a woman, were killed and 115 others maimed since Tuesday in rebel rocket attacks on the city. |
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