The Conflict in Yemen
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# Husits arrange a warm welcome to "tourists" on the coast of the Red Sea. Tourists from the sunny # Sudan , South # Yemen and # CSA brought with them a miracle robotic ( #drone #robot ), but did not help.
Producer of a wonderful device http://dok-ing.hr/ whose clones are known to us, like "Uranus-14" and "Uran-6" /
Somewhere in the same town # Midi # ATC husits successfully hit # tank M- 60
#houthis hit #saudi #sudanian #Midi #Yemen #Sudan #KSA #ATGM
if TyTrub erases, then look here
https: // almasirah.
Producer of a wonderful device http://dok-ing.hr/ whose clones are known to us, like "Uranus-14" and "Uran-6" /
Somewhere in the same town # Midi # ATC husits successfully hit # tank M- 60
#houthis hit #saudi #sudanian #Midi #Yemen #Sudan #KSA #ATGM
if TyTrub erases, then look here
https: // almasirah.
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http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/a...lled-fighting-ranges-yemeni-capital-994266105
The former president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was killed on Monday in a reported RPG and gun attack while trying to flee fierce fighting between his loyalists and his former allies the Houthis in the capital Sanaa.
Graphic video shared on social media showed the body of Saleh being carried in the back of a pick-up vehicle. The man had suffered a large head wound.
A source from Saleh's party, the GPC, told Middle East Eye that the Houthis had "executed" the former president and promised the battle against the movement would continue.
"The Houthis executed Saleh and maimed his body and this is against humanity, but the Houthis do not understand humanity," said the source.
The Houthi-aligned television station, al-Masirah, stated: "The interior ministry announces the end of the crisis of the treason militia and the killing of its leader and a number of his criminal partisans."
The GPC officials said Saleh was killed south of the capital Sanaa along with the assistant secretary-general of the GPC, Yasser al-Awadi.
Saleh was killed while he was in his way to his birth village, Sanhan, south of Sanaa, the GPC source told MEE.
The source said Saleh's death did not mean the end of the 'revolution' against the Houthis, and stated Saleh was now a "martyr of the country".
Sources in the Houthi group said fighters stopped his armoured vehicle with an RPG rocket and then shot him dead.
Al-Masirah stated that Saleh was killed while trying to flee the capital for Marib province.
The Houthis executed Saleh and maimed his body and this is against humanity
- GPC source, speaking to MEE
Footage of Saleh showed Houthi fighters unfurling a blanket containing the corpse and shouting, "praise God!" and "hey Ali Affash!", another last name for Saleh.
Media channels in Iran, whose government backs the Houthis, and al-Arabiya, a Saudi channel, also announced Saleh's death.
Al Arabiya quoted a source in Saleh's GPC party as saying he was killed by a sniper.
The reports came amid intense fighting and claims from the Houthis, who control Sanaa, that they had destroyed Saleh's house in the centre of the city.
The former president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was killed on Monday in a reported RPG and gun attack while trying to flee fierce fighting between his loyalists and his former allies the Houthis in the capital Sanaa.
Graphic video shared on social media showed the body of Saleh being carried in the back of a pick-up vehicle. The man had suffered a large head wound.
A source from Saleh's party, the GPC, told Middle East Eye that the Houthis had "executed" the former president and promised the battle against the movement would continue.
"The Houthis executed Saleh and maimed his body and this is against humanity, but the Houthis do not understand humanity," said the source.
The Houthi-aligned television station, al-Masirah, stated: "The interior ministry announces the end of the crisis of the treason militia and the killing of its leader and a number of his criminal partisans."
The GPC officials said Saleh was killed south of the capital Sanaa along with the assistant secretary-general of the GPC, Yasser al-Awadi.
Saleh was killed while he was in his way to his birth village, Sanhan, south of Sanaa, the GPC source told MEE.
The source said Saleh's death did not mean the end of the 'revolution' against the Houthis, and stated Saleh was now a "martyr of the country".
Sources in the Houthi group said fighters stopped his armoured vehicle with an RPG rocket and then shot him dead.
Al-Masirah stated that Saleh was killed while trying to flee the capital for Marib province.
The Houthis executed Saleh and maimed his body and this is against humanity
- GPC source, speaking to MEE
Footage of Saleh showed Houthi fighters unfurling a blanket containing the corpse and shouting, "praise God!" and "hey Ali Affash!", another last name for Saleh.
Media channels in Iran, whose government backs the Houthis, and al-Arabiya, a Saudi channel, also announced Saleh's death.
Al Arabiya quoted a source in Saleh's GPC party as saying he was killed by a sniper.
The reports came amid intense fighting and claims from the Houthis, who control Sanaa, that they had destroyed Saleh's house in the centre of the city.
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^^deja vu
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Killing of former president Saleh changes dynamics of Yemen’s civil war
Veteran former president Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed in a roadside attack on Monday after switching sides in Yemen’s civil war, abandoning his Iran-aligned Houthi allies in favour of a Saudi-led coalition, foes and supporters said.
The killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni president, removes the country’s most important political figure for four decades from a complex equation that has plunged the Arab world’s poorest nation into conflict and sparked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
His death marks a dramatic shift three years into a war in a state of stalemate. It risks the conflict becoming even more intractable.
Saleh was an important player in Yemen’s descent into civil war. His reluctant departure from power in 2012 – forced upon him by the Arab spring after 33 years of rule – brought his Saudi-backed deputy, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, into office.
But in 2014 Saleh forged an uneasy, unlikely alliance with his former enemies, the Houthis, to facilitate their takeover of Sana’a and ultimately to force Hadi to flee to Saudi Arabia.
It was an alliance doomed to fail, but few predicted the man who sided with the rebels he fought six wars against between 2004 and 2011 would eventually be killed by them.
While it lasted, the alliance benefited both sides. Saleh used Houthi firepower and manpower, while the rebels gained from Saleh’s governing and intelligence networks.
In the past week, that equation changed as Saleh moved to increase his power in Sana’a and signalled that he was swapping sides, seeking a dialogue with the Saudis and their allies, including the United Arab Emirates. There were reports that Saudi bombing of Sana’a in recent days was targeting Houthi areas in a move to help Saleh - but that did little to prevent the rebels killing him.
Without Saleh, the Houthis are strengthened – at least in the short term. “There’s a possibility that [Saleh’s] apparatus will be radically weakened, if not marginalised in the coming period; this leaves the Houthis as the key power in northern Yemen,” said Adam Baron, visiting fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations .
Houthi calls for celebrations to be held in public squares on Tuesday in the wake of Saleh’s killing leaves little doubt that rather than reconciliation, Baron said, the rebels are “in the mood for consolidation”.
Saleh, a former military officer, became the president of North Yemen in 1978 after a coup but, when north and south reunited in 1990, was elected as the first president of the new country. He once likened his time in power to “dancing on the heads of snakes”.
The war in Yemen has hit a stalemate, and it is hard to say which side is winning. “For Houthis, the definition of winning is just survival, and they’re doing a pretty good job at that; for the Saudis the definition of winning is restoring the internationally recognised government,” Baron said.
“Houthis spent a decade fighting an insurgency isolated in the mountains of northern Yemen. Just being able to hold on to Sana’a, let alone to vanquish Saleh, their historical enemy, that’s a big deal.”
The stakes are already high. Last month, the launch of a missile fired from Yemen towards Riyadh led Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, to accuse Iran of “direct military aggression” by supplying missiles to Houthis – a charge Iran vehemently denied.
The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, replied that Saudi Arabia “bombs Yemen to smithereens, killing [thousands] of innocents including babies, spreads cholera and famine, but of course blames Iran”.
Since then Houthis have launched at least one other missile towards Saudi Arabia and last week claimed to have hit a nuclear plant under construction in the UAE, a claim denied by the Emirates.
The New York Times reported on Monday that missile experts had cast doubt on claims that American defence systems were able to intercept a Yemeni missile fired towards Riyadh airport.
One thing that is clear is Yemen without Saleh will be a different, yet still unpredictable, country.
“Even when people want to play on the ground in Yemen from outside,” Baron said, “internal dynamics have a way of shifting in a way that nobody really expected.”
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world...s-civil-war/story-BGqGB1VWoAnfWbpAimeStK.html
Veteran former president Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed in a roadside attack on Monday after switching sides in Yemen’s civil war, abandoning his Iran-aligned Houthi allies in favour of a Saudi-led coalition, foes and supporters said.
The killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni president, removes the country’s most important political figure for four decades from a complex equation that has plunged the Arab world’s poorest nation into conflict and sparked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
His death marks a dramatic shift three years into a war in a state of stalemate. It risks the conflict becoming even more intractable.
Saleh was an important player in Yemen’s descent into civil war. His reluctant departure from power in 2012 – forced upon him by the Arab spring after 33 years of rule – brought his Saudi-backed deputy, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, into office.
But in 2014 Saleh forged an uneasy, unlikely alliance with his former enemies, the Houthis, to facilitate their takeover of Sana’a and ultimately to force Hadi to flee to Saudi Arabia.
It was an alliance doomed to fail, but few predicted the man who sided with the rebels he fought six wars against between 2004 and 2011 would eventually be killed by them.
While it lasted, the alliance benefited both sides. Saleh used Houthi firepower and manpower, while the rebels gained from Saleh’s governing and intelligence networks.
In the past week, that equation changed as Saleh moved to increase his power in Sana’a and signalled that he was swapping sides, seeking a dialogue with the Saudis and their allies, including the United Arab Emirates. There were reports that Saudi bombing of Sana’a in recent days was targeting Houthi areas in a move to help Saleh - but that did little to prevent the rebels killing him.
Without Saleh, the Houthis are strengthened – at least in the short term. “There’s a possibility that [Saleh’s] apparatus will be radically weakened, if not marginalised in the coming period; this leaves the Houthis as the key power in northern Yemen,” said Adam Baron, visiting fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations .
Houthi calls for celebrations to be held in public squares on Tuesday in the wake of Saleh’s killing leaves little doubt that rather than reconciliation, Baron said, the rebels are “in the mood for consolidation”.
Saleh, a former military officer, became the president of North Yemen in 1978 after a coup but, when north and south reunited in 1990, was elected as the first president of the new country. He once likened his time in power to “dancing on the heads of snakes”.
The war in Yemen has hit a stalemate, and it is hard to say which side is winning. “For Houthis, the definition of winning is just survival, and they’re doing a pretty good job at that; for the Saudis the definition of winning is restoring the internationally recognised government,” Baron said.
“Houthis spent a decade fighting an insurgency isolated in the mountains of northern Yemen. Just being able to hold on to Sana’a, let alone to vanquish Saleh, their historical enemy, that’s a big deal.”
The stakes are already high. Last month, the launch of a missile fired from Yemen towards Riyadh led Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, to accuse Iran of “direct military aggression” by supplying missiles to Houthis – a charge Iran vehemently denied.
The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, replied that Saudi Arabia “bombs Yemen to smithereens, killing [thousands] of innocents including babies, spreads cholera and famine, but of course blames Iran”.
Since then Houthis have launched at least one other missile towards Saudi Arabia and last week claimed to have hit a nuclear plant under construction in the UAE, a claim denied by the Emirates.
The New York Times reported on Monday that missile experts had cast doubt on claims that American defence systems were able to intercept a Yemeni missile fired towards Riyadh airport.
One thing that is clear is Yemen without Saleh will be a different, yet still unpredictable, country.
“Even when people want to play on the ground in Yemen from outside,” Baron said, “internal dynamics have a way of shifting in a way that nobody really expected.”
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world...s-civil-war/story-BGqGB1VWoAnfWbpAimeStK.html
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I for one want Saudis to remain bogged down in Yemen. It takes their mind off of funding Wahabi madarsas in India and goes to show that despite spending a mind boggling 10% of GDP on defence, Saudis are getting their asses kicked.
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Funded by UAE, wounded Yemeni soldiers get treatment in India
Published December 7, 2017 | By admin SOURCE: Hindustan Times
A burst of bullets caught Yemeni soldier Khalid Ahmed Alwan’s spine and immobilised him during a fierce gunfight against Houthi militiamen two years ago. After months at a hospital in his war-torn nation, 25-year-old Alwan along with 54 fellow wounded soldiers was flown in a chartered aircraft to New Delhi on November 19 for advanced medical care. More than wound, he is now worried about the woman he was betrothed to.The young man was deployed to Ma’rib, about 120km from Yemeni capital Sana’a, to fight the Houthis a week after his engagement and days before his marriage. “I hope I would be fine soon and get married to the same girl. That is the only thing I worry about,” he said in a Gurgaon hospital through an interpreter. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is footing the medical bill for this people. And Indian hospitals were chosen to take care of them because of the UAE’s “close ties” with India. Alwan and fellow wounded soldiers Anaz Nadeem and Shikah Khalil considered themselves lucky to be alive in a conflict that has so far killed 8,600 people, wounded 49,000 and left over 20 million in need of imminent humanitarian assistance since March 2015. The United Nations had termed the civil war in Yemen as the worst humanitarian crisis. Doctors treating these war patients in three hospitals in and around Delhi are astounded by the complexity of their wounds and ailments. Dr Vikram Sharma, the head of urology at Fortis hospital in Gurgaon, said he is dealing with “unique kinds of urological cancer” in these patients. “It could be because of chemical weapons or from radiations. We need more investigations to come to a conclusion.” According to Dr Anil Behl, who heads plastic surgery at Fortis, reconstruction surgeries are often required as most of patients are from a war zone and victims of bomb blasts. Yemen has been one of the poorest in the Arab world and the war between forces loyal to president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and those allied to the Houthi rebellion has deepened the economic crisis. Ahmed Al Banna, the UAE’s envoy to India, said his country has spent more than $2.35 billion in humanitarian and development aid for Yemen in the past two years. The UAE government’s decision to send wounded Yemeni citizens to India for treatment “is a reflection of the trust we have in India’s medical infrastructure”, he said. The current lot of patients wishes to go home early. “I am in pain, but home is home” Khalil said. The 24-year-old Nadeem joined the army to serve the nation. But the military training, war and bloodshed didn’t take away his love for literature and psychology. He wants to go home and hopes “to complete his studies”.
idrw.org .Read more at India No 1 Defence News Website http://idrw.org/funded-by-uae-wounded-yemeni-soldiers-get-treatment-in-india/#more-155797 .
Published December 7, 2017 | By admin SOURCE: Hindustan Times
A burst of bullets caught Yemeni soldier Khalid Ahmed Alwan’s spine and immobilised him during a fierce gunfight against Houthi militiamen two years ago. After months at a hospital in his war-torn nation, 25-year-old Alwan along with 54 fellow wounded soldiers was flown in a chartered aircraft to New Delhi on November 19 for advanced medical care. More than wound, he is now worried about the woman he was betrothed to.The young man was deployed to Ma’rib, about 120km from Yemeni capital Sana’a, to fight the Houthis a week after his engagement and days before his marriage. “I hope I would be fine soon and get married to the same girl. That is the only thing I worry about,” he said in a Gurgaon hospital through an interpreter. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is footing the medical bill for this people. And Indian hospitals were chosen to take care of them because of the UAE’s “close ties” with India. Alwan and fellow wounded soldiers Anaz Nadeem and Shikah Khalil considered themselves lucky to be alive in a conflict that has so far killed 8,600 people, wounded 49,000 and left over 20 million in need of imminent humanitarian assistance since March 2015. The United Nations had termed the civil war in Yemen as the worst humanitarian crisis. Doctors treating these war patients in three hospitals in and around Delhi are astounded by the complexity of their wounds and ailments. Dr Vikram Sharma, the head of urology at Fortis hospital in Gurgaon, said he is dealing with “unique kinds of urological cancer” in these patients. “It could be because of chemical weapons or from radiations. We need more investigations to come to a conclusion.” According to Dr Anil Behl, who heads plastic surgery at Fortis, reconstruction surgeries are often required as most of patients are from a war zone and victims of bomb blasts. Yemen has been one of the poorest in the Arab world and the war between forces loyal to president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and those allied to the Houthi rebellion has deepened the economic crisis. Ahmed Al Banna, the UAE’s envoy to India, said his country has spent more than $2.35 billion in humanitarian and development aid for Yemen in the past two years. The UAE government’s decision to send wounded Yemeni citizens to India for treatment “is a reflection of the trust we have in India’s medical infrastructure”, he said. The current lot of patients wishes to go home early. “I am in pain, but home is home” Khalil said. The 24-year-old Nadeem joined the army to serve the nation. But the military training, war and bloodshed didn’t take away his love for literature and psychology. He wants to go home and hopes “to complete his studies”.
idrw.org .Read more at India No 1 Defence News Website http://idrw.org/funded-by-uae-wounded-yemeni-soldiers-get-treatment-in-india/#more-155797 .
