YEMEN-SECURITY/SANAA AIR STRIKE Saudi-led air raids hit bases, Houthi leaders' houses in Yemeni capital

Record ID: 141234

  • Title: YEMEN-SECURITY/SANAA AIR STRIKE Saudi-led air raids hit bases, Houthi leaders' houses in Yemeni capital
  • Date: 10th September 2015
  • Summary: SANAA, YEMEN (SEPTEMBER 10, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SMOKE RISING FROM NOQOM MOUNTAIN VARIOUS OF SMOKE RISING FROM MILITARY EQUIPMENT REPAIRS FACILITY
  • Embargoed: 25th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Yemen
  • Country: Yemen
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA9N0PDOUL3HS48HE7MM02DIEA0
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: War planes from a Saudi-led military alliance bombed targets throughout Yemen's capital Sanaa on Thursday (September 10), in what witnesses described as the fiercest series of attacks on the city in over five months of war.
    The raids hit houses of political leaders in the Iran-allied Houthi movement and military bases, as explosions and wailing ambulance sirens forced a sleepless night on the city's nearly two million shell-shocked residents.
    There were no immediate reports of casualties on Thursday, a day after medics said air strikes had killed six civilians in the city.
    Saudi Arabia and other Arab states intervened in Yemen's civil war on March 26 to halt the nationwide spread of the Houthis, who seized Sanaa last year and forced the government into exile in Riyadh after the group advanced on its southern stronghold of Aden.
    The Houthis, who hail from the Zaydi Shi'ite Muslim sect, view their rise as a revolution. But they are fiercely opposed by the Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab states who believe the group is bent on spreading Iran's influence.
    Since a Houthi missile attack killed at least 60 Gulf Arab troops east of Sanaa last Friday (September 4), the coalition has stepped up its air strikes on the capital and increased its deployment of troops, which Yemeni officials say number a few thousand, ahead of an eventual push towards Sanaa.
    Fear is spreading that a decisive battle in the city may wreak widespread destruction, as it has in the war-torn southern city of Taiz, where medics said 18 people were killed in an explosion on a residential area on Thursday, variously blamed on Houthi artillery shelling and Saudi-led air strikes.
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