Saudi Coalition Airstrikes Destroy Yemen Rebel Encampment

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SANAA, Yemen — Airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition destroyed a key rebel encampment in the country's capital on Sunday, rocking downtown with blasts that also hit a school, restaurants and embassies, according to witnesses and officials from both sides of the conflict.

The strikes wounded 17 people, including school children taking final exams, medical officials said. The Saudi and Emirati embassies were damaged, witnesses and security officials said.

Yemen is torn by fighting between the rebels known Houthis allied with forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh against President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's coalition-backed forces, as well as southern separatists, local militias and Sunni extremists.

Columns of grey smoke rose early Sunday morning from the downtown Houthi encampment, the headquarters of the Special Security Forces, where troops remain loyal to Saleh.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/09/06/world/middleeast/ap-ml-yemen.html

Nothing quite says you know what you are doing like bombing your own embassy.

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1. UAE, Bahrain say 50 soldiers killed in Yemen attack

At least 50 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were killed in Yemen on Friday in the deadliest attack on Gulf Arab troops in the Saudi-led military campaign against Houthi forces, Gulf news agencies said.

The incident took place in the oil-producing Marib area of central Yemen near the border with Saudi Arabia, apparently when Houthis rocket fire hit a weapons store at a military camp.

UAE state news agency WAM initially reported that 22 Emirati soldiers were killed, then later said the total number had risen to 45 after 23 more soldiers died of their wounds.

"A rocket and an explosion at a weapons cache has targeted the martyrs," UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said on Twitter.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/04/uk-yemen-security-idUKKCN0R40V120150904

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2. Toll from Yemen rebel attack rises as 10 Saudi troops killed

SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Saudi Arabia's military said Saturday that 10 of its troops were killed in a rebel missile strike a day earlier in Yemen, raising the death toll in the attack to at least 55 coalition troops slain.

It was the first public acknowledgement by the Saudis that they have ground troops in Yemen, where they lead a coalition targeting Shiite rebels known as Houthis and their allies.

The United Arab Emirates lost 45 troops in the attack Friday, when rebels hit an ammunition depot in Marib, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of the capital, Sanaa. It was the deadliest day for the UAE's military in the nation's 44-year history.

"Ten Saudi soldiers from the Arab coalition forces were martyred," in the attack on the weapons depot, Saudi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri said in a statement.

http://www.ksby.com/story/29965759/toll-from-yemen-rebel-attack-rises-as-10-saudi-troops-killed

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3. . nt

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4. I hope Saudi Arabia and Iran improve their relations.

This seems to me like a proxy war. Meanwhile barbaric forces are gaining steam across the region.