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bemildred

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23. Saudi prestige suffers a blow in Yemen fight

Fri Apr 3, 2015, 11:31 AM

Apr 2015

Two months after ascending to the throne, King Salman of Saudi Arabia bet his prestige as a new leader on rallying his Arab allies for a military campaign to save Yemen from an Iranian takeover – all under the direction of his son, the new defense minister and chief of the royal court.

The results a week later showed just how big a risk they took.

Houthis, portrayed as Iranian proxies by the Saudis but few others, have continued their advances despite nine nights of Saudi-led airstrikes. On Thursday, Houthi fighters captured a presidential palace in the southern port of Aden, killed a Saudi soldier in a skirmish at the border and wounded five others.

Islamist militants, meanwhile, capitalized on the chaos caused by the airstrikes to free a leader of al-Qaeda and hundreds of others from prison and to partly seize control of a crucial city in the south.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/saudi-prestige-suffers-a-blow-in-yemen-fight/article23787408/

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Large Map...to keep the area in perspective.. KoKo Apr 2015 #4

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. nt bemildred Apr 2015 #14

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+1. bemildred Apr 2015 #25

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They are fighting them both at the moment. bemildred Apr 2015 #30

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Well to be honest I don't expect much. bemildred Apr 2015 #32

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