Continued Saudi air attacks Martyre 40 Houthis

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More than forty Yemeni Houthis fighters have been killed in the fresh Saudi Arabia’s air attacks on the northern Yemen fighters holding territory in the border region.

 

 

Graphic locates Saada province, Yemen where Saudi Arabian troops launched a cross-border attack against Shias

The fighters were killed in the remote mountainous regions of Malahit and Maran in Saada province.

The Saudi military said the attacks were in response to an earlier confrontation between Shia fighters and Saudi security forces that killed two Saudi security men.

Houthi fighters on November 3 attacked a border patrol on the brink of Yemen-Saudi Arabia border, killing two Saudi guards and wounding 10 others. Six Saudi border guard vehicles were also destroyed in the attack.

The combatants had warned a day earlier that they would retaliate against Saudi Arabia after accusing Riyadh of permitting Yemeni government troops to launch attacks against them from a Saudi security installation in Jabal al-Dukhan.

The conflict between the Houthi fighters and the Yemeni government began in 2004, but intensified last August when government forces stepped up the pressure against the fighters.

Sana’a launched a military offensive codenamed Operation Scorched Earth against the Houthi fighters who say they have been defending their people against the government. Houthis say Sana’a has been marginalizing them economically and politically.

The offensive has killed thousands of people and displaced at least tens of thousands, according to the Red Cross and United Nations.

Obama confirms 55 Million Dollar Budget Soft War against Iran

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Barack Obama, the president of the United States, despite the claims of taking huge steps to normalize ties with Iran, signed a budget allowing the pentagon to spend 55 million dollars in a soft war against the Islamic Republic.

 

Obama signed this budget in a ceremony conducted at the White House. This budget is going to be spent on trying to gain influence in Iran, fighting against the filtering of anti-Iranian sites, motivating the ‘victims’ of censorship in Iran, educating Iranians against their government about how to create websites which would depict the riots which occurred after the presidential elections as well as news sites.

 

 

Saudi jets 'attack Yemen Shias' (Updated)

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Saudi aircraft have attacked Shia Movement in northern Yemen following Wednesday’s killing of a Saudi security officer in a border area, reports say.

 

 

 

The Saudi planes and helicopters had targeted strongholds of the Houthis along the Yemeni side of border, the London-based newspaper Elaph said.

The Shias said the planes had struck four locations using phosphorus bombs.

The attacks came after a Saudi security officer was killed and 11 were wounded in a cross-border attack by the Shias.

The Houthis said on Wednesday that they had taken “full control” of a mountainous section of the border region of Jabal al-Dukhan.

The Yemeni government has been waging a campaign against the Shia group since 2004.

Riyadh has been supporting the Yemeni government in attacks against the Shias.

In October, there were clashes between Houthis and Saudi security forces near the border.

Yemen is one of the world’s poorest countries and analysts question the ability of the government to assert full control over the country.

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Saudi Arabia has launched heavy air strikes on Houthis in northern Yemen and is moving troops nearer the border after a raid into its territory by Houthis, a Saudi government adviser said on Thursday.

Saudi government officials said only that the air force had bombed Yemeni Houthi fighetrs who had seized a border area inside the kingdom, which they said had now been recaptured. The officials said at least 40 Houthis had been killed in the fighting.

“As of yesterday late afternoon, Saudi air strikes began on their positions in northern Yemen,” the adviser said, asking not to be named because operations were still going on.

“There have been successive air strikes, very heavy bombardment of their positions, not just on the border, but on their main positions around Saada,” he said, alluding to the capital of the northern province.

Al Jazeera television quoted a Houthi spokesman as saying the Saudi air force had raided six locations inside Yemen. One position had been hit by about 100 missiles in one hour.

There was no official confirmation from Riyadh or the Yemeni capital Sanaa of cross-border Saudi air strikes, which the Saudi adviser said were coordinated with Yemen’s armed forces.

Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday a security officer was killed and 11 were wounded in an attack by gunmen who had crossed the border from Yemen — the first such reported incursion since the long-running conflist erupted in August.

The Saudi-owned Elaph website reported that a second soldier had died later from the same clash.

No ground attack yet

The Saudi government adviser said no decision had yet been taken to send troops across the border, but made clear Riyadh was no longer prepared to tolerate the Yemeni Shias.

“After what happened yesterday, it is clear they have lost track of reality and it has got to a point where there is no other way. They have got to be finished,” he said.

Houthis have previously accused Saudi Arabia of backing Yemen’s armed forces in the conflict. Sanaa had denied this.

The Houthis said on Wednesday they had taken control of the Jabal al-Dukhan area after defeating Saudi forces there.

Saudi Arabia was allowing the Yemeni army to use the mountainous area to launch attacks against them and they would take action if this continued, the Houthis said.

Aid groups say around 150,000 people have been displaced by the fighting, which first broke out in 2004