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Yemeni Shiite rebels overtake key tribal area, defeat dominant Sunni tribes

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Tribal officials say that Shiite Hawthi rebels have defeated one of Yemen's most dominant tribes after weeks of fighting between the two groups over territory in the northwest part of the country, in a landmark victory for the separatists.

Hawthis seek independence from the country's Sunni-aligned government and have been waging a campaign to expand their reach beyond the northwest mountains toward the capital, Sanaa.

In recent days, at least 150 militants have died in battles over the villages Houth and Khamra in Amran province. A government-backed cease-fire failed to stop the fighting.

Hawthi leaders announced the victory early Sunday.

Gameel al-Hashidi, a leader of the ultraconservative Sunni Hashid tribe, told The Associated Press that the area was completely under Hawthi control.

Yemeni Shiite rebels overtake key tribal area
 
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Yeah!

Btw the wahabit satanist sect are not sunnis
They have USA bases and never care for the sunnis palestinians

Only Iran have made an Islamic Revolution, sunnis have still not get rid of the zionist wahabit sect ruling them and betray Islam with the JEW USA terrorist bases
 
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Yemen Houthi rebels overrun tribal strongholds

SANAA: Shiite Houthi rebels have overrun strongholds of powerful tribes in northern Yemen, witnesses said Sunday, in a major advance following weeks of combat that have left scores dead.

The rebels have been pushing out from their stronghold in the mountains of the far north to other areas nearer the capital to expand their hoped-for autonomous unit in a promised federal Yemen.

The Houthis seized the town of Huth and Khamri village — the seat of the Hashid tribal chief, as tribal defense lines crumbled, local sources and witnesses said.

The Houthis “completely took over the regions of Huth and Khamri,” rebel spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam told AFP by telephone.

Tribal chief sheikh Hussein Al-Ahmar ordered his fighters to evacuate his family’s farm in Khamri and set it ablaze, witnesses said, adding that the tribesmen have retreated to neighboring areas.

Scores have been captured by the advancing rebels, they added.

The violence in Amran province dates back to January 5, and dozens of people have been killed in the fighting, including 60 on Friday alone.

Hashid tribesmen on Friday recaptured areas lost to the rebels earlier in the week, but the battle lines have shifted back and forth, according to local sources.

The capture of Khamri represents a severe blow to the powerful Ahmar clan, which leads the Hashid.

Divisions within the Hashid tribe could be behind the defeat, sources said, pointing out that some have sided with the Houthis.
The division is a result of an ongoing dispute between the Hashid chief sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmar and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who also belongs to the vast Hashid tribe.

Ahmar had sided with nationwide Arab Spring protests that forced Saleh to step down in February 2012 after 33 years in power.
In addition to taking on the northern tribes, the Shiite Houthis have also been battling Sunni Salafists who established religious schools in parts of the north.

The Houthis have accused the Salafists of bringing foreign extremists into their region.

Mediators dispatched by President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi have succeeded in brokering cease-fires in several areas, but some of the truces have broken down.

The Houthis, named after their late leader Abdel Malek Al-Houthi, are part of the Zaidi Shiite community.

They rose up in 2004 against Saleh’s government, accusing it of marginalizing them politically and economically.

Hadi has pledged that Yemen will adopt a federal constitution in a bid to address local grievances that have fueled violence across the Arab world’s poorest country.

But at a ceremony last month to mark the conclusion of a troubled 10-month national dialogue, he put off any decision on the thorny issue of how many components it will have, promising that a special commission will decide.

The prospect of a federal Yemen, originally mooted as way to address grievances of the formerly independent south — where secessionist violence has been on the rise — has spawned demands for autonomy elsewhere, including the rebel-held far north.

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Don't forget the famous sword given by Mohammed to Ali

I admire the shias and i'am sure they won't make exactions, contrary to the systematic exactions by zionist Al Qaeda to ashame Islam
 
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I love how international media labels them 'rebels' in some instances only when it suits them and doesn't give that label to other rebels around the Middle East such as the Palestinian rebels only when it suits them. This 'journalism' is sickening it's set up this way to increase divisions amongst Muslims and slander both sides of our people either way they will go ahead and slander us.
 
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They will not reach anything. The gov and military are trying to start a new page and act as if they are at the same distance from all parties and yet eligible at being mediates in order to get Yemen on it's feet. However, the moment those Houthies cross the line they will be slaughtered and humiliated and then will be forced to beg for a cease fire just like the seven times they have done with Saudi Arabia and Yemen. I hope Yemeni army intervenes and mercilessly finish them off as Saddam did with Kurds.
 
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They will not reach anything. The gov and military are trying to start a new page and act as if they are at the same distance from all parties and yet eligible at being mediates in order to get Yemen on it's feet. However, the moment those Houthies cross the line they will be slaughtered and humiliated and then will be forced to beg for a cease fire just like the seven times they have done with Saudi Arabia and Yemen. I hope Yemeni army intervenes and mercilessly finish them off as Saddam did with Kurds.
Oh so you support Kurdish slaughter and use of chemical weapons on them by Saddam, while whining almost everyday over Syria, not that I'm surprised but at least have a balance in your views, because I remember that you said you don't apprive of his murderous actions against Kurds. Don't change your words when you are angry or emotional about something. But we are almost used to this hypocrisy in ME, almost there.
 
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Now shia supporting these rebels in Yemen but in Syria they take 360° U-Turn.....
 
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On the flip side of that coin, now Sunni supporting the rebels in Syria but in Yemen they take 360° U-turn...

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They will not reach anything. The gov and military are trying to start a new page and act as if they are at the same distance from all parties and yet eligible at being mediates in order to get Yemen on it's feet. However, the moment those Houthies cross the line they will be slaughtered and humiliated and then will be forced to beg for a cease fire just like the seven times they have done with Saudi Arabia and Yemen. I hope Yemeni army intervenes and mercilessly finish them off as Saddam did with Kurds.
He didn't defeat them when he failed he killed civilians the same they are doing in Syria right now they kidnapping kurds the same thing ottomans did to the druze when they couldn't defeat them they started to destroye their villages and the same thing when NATO cowards did to Serbia when coundn't beat the Serbian army the started to kill Serbian civilians and what they did in fallujah
 
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