...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...
i soldiers were killed and more than 20 maimed on Tuesday in a rebel missile attack on a military camp housing government troops, a military source said.
The missile hit the al-Sadrain Camp in Ad-Dali province while soldiers were gathering in the morning, the source told AFP.
It is the second rebel attack in the province in little more than a week. On December 29, five soldiers of the southern separatist-dominated Security Belt Forces were killed in a similar attack in Ad-Dali.
Despite a lull in fighting in most of Yemen in recent months, Ad-Dali province has remained a flashpoint.
The province straddles the old boundary between north Yemen and the formerly independent south and the rebels are in close proximity to government forces along the front line.
Despite a Saudi-led military intervention launched in March 2015, the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s, who are allied with Riyadh for Tehran, remain in control of the capital Sanaa and much of the north.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions more displaced in what the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.