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Yemen update 9\18\2015.. They want to push the rebels out of Marib province and move on the capital
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Yemen air strike kill 14 pro-govt fighters by ‘mistake’
At least 14 pro-government troops were killed when a Saudi-led coalition air raid targeted their position “by mistake”, tribal and military sources said Friday.
“The air force bombed a gathering of fighters in the region of Harib believing them to be Huthi rebels,” a military source said.
A tribal chief confirmed the overnight strike, saying that those killed appeared to be local tribesmen fighting on the side of the forces loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
Harib is around 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Marib, the capital of the central province.
Loyalist forces, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, say they are advancing on the ground in Marib as part of a major counter offensive against Shiite Huthi rebels, who last year stormed Yemen’s capital and seized large parts of the country.
Coalition aircraft launched a series of raids Friday morning on rebel positions in the south of the province, military sources said.
The United Nations says nearly 4,900 people have been killed and around 25,000 wounded since late March, while 21 million out of Yemen’s population of 25 million have been affected by the conflict.
Shelling from Yemen kills 3 in Saudi border region
Agence France Presse
Riyadh:
Shelling from across the border in Yemen killed three people in Saudi Arabia Friday and wounded 28, the civil defense agency said.
The agency described the deceased as residents of the Saudi border district of Jazan, while Saudi news channel Al-Ekhbaria said they were foreigners.
The civil defense added that four Saudis were among the wounded, without giving the nationalities of the others.
Al-Ekhbaria showed pictures of blast-damaged cars and shrapnel-punctured walls.
The attack brings to at least 64 the number of people killed in Saudi Arabia from border shelling and skirmishes since a Saudi-led coalition began a campaign against Iran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen six months ago.
Most of the border casualties have been soldiers.
The latest shelling came as local anti-rebel fighters backed by Gulf Arab ground troops from the coalition pressed their offensive in Yemen.
They want to push the rebels out of Marib province and eventually move on the capital, which the rebels seized last year.
Riyadh formed the alliance in March, to support exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, in response to fears that the Huthis would take over all of Yemen and move it into the orbit of Sunni Saudi Arabia’s Shiite regional rival Iran.
The United Nations says nearly 4,900 people, including a vast number of civilians, have been killed in Yemen since late March.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/09/yemen-update-9182015-they-want-to-push.html
