[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah Movement (var. 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 Americaâ„¢, 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...
forces) attempted to advance inside a strategic district located in the Marib Governorate on Thursday, prompting intense festivities between their troops and the 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...
i government forces.
According to local reports on Thursday, the Ansarallah Movement attempted to capture the Aydat al-Ra’a area in the western part of Marib’s Sirwah District; however, Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...’s al-Mayadeen TV reported that the Ansarallah Movement was able to capture some sites in the Aydat al-Ra’a.
Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
al-Mayadeen further reported advances at the al-Bara’a area of the Sirwah District, but did not specify the sites that were captured by the Ansarallah Movement.
"The Yemeni army and the popular committees liberated several sites in the al-Bara’a region in the Sirwah District," al-Mayadeen TV added.
The Ansrallah Movement has been attempting to capture several remaining sites under the control of the Yemeni government forces around Marib, a move that has been heavily criticized by the Arab Coalition.
Should the Yemeni government forces lose the administrative capital of Marib and its adjacent oil fields, it would strike a major blow to the latter’s economic capabilities, along with a major city in northern Yemen.