...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...
targets in 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...
's western province of Hodeidah on Monday, the second wave of strikes on Houthi-held territory in less than 48 hours.
The Houthi-run al-Masirah channel reported that US and UK aircraft carried out one strike on the al-Jabanah region of Hodeidah but provided no information on the targeted locations, casualties or damage.
The attack in Hodeidah came a day after the Houthis said that the two countries had conducted three
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KABOOM!...
s on unidentified targets in the Maytam region, north of Ibb province.
At the same time, US Central Command said on Sunday evening that over the past 24 hours, its forces had destroyed three Houthi drones and two missile systems in a Houthi-controlled Yemeni area, all of which were threatening US-led coalition ships and commercial vessels in international shipping lanes.
Houthi attacks on ships led the US to form a coalition of marine task forces to defend vessels, designate the Houthis as a terrorist group and launch strikes against Houthi-controlled Yemen, including Sanaa, Saada, Ibb and Hodeidah, in collaboration with the UK.
Hodeidah, Yemen's only major coastal city under Houthi control, has received most of the US and UK strikes since January, as the militia is said to have used its coasts to launch explosive-laden and remote-controlled boats to attack ships.
The Houthis say their forces are only targeting Israeli-linked ships to pressure Tel Aviv into ending its Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war.
| It’s true that they say that. But what they say is a lie — it’s one of those philosophical conundrum thingies |
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
Yemen's government requested financial assistance from GCC countries on Monday to help shore up its faltering economy, stabilize the currency and pay public employees.
Rashad al-Alimi, chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, met UAE Ambassador to Yemen Mohammed Hamad al-Zaab in Riyadh on Monday to discuss ''necessary'' financial support to boost the country's economy, improve Yemenis' living conditions and assist government reforms, according to the official news agency, SABA.
It came as Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Awadh bin Mubarak arrived in Doha on Sunday to discuss Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i financial assistance to Yemen, particularly in the electricity sector.
''The government is looking for new support from its brothers in the GCC countries,'' a knowledgeable Yemeni government official who requested anonymity told Arab News.
The Yemeni government has lost almost 70 percent of its revenue since the Houthis attacked oil terminals in the provinces of Shabwa and Hadramout
...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard...
, causing a complete halt to oil exports.