Sunday, October 25, 2009

Yemen Civil War News Updates -- October 25, 2009

In Yemen, War Centers on Authority, Not Terrain -- New York Times

SANA, Yemen — For almost seven weeks, Khasan Muhammad Abdullah and his family cowered in their house in northern Yemen while a war raged outside and their food slowly ran out. He could hear government fighter jets screaming across the sky, and he knew the Houthi rebels by their distinctive logos and headbands. But he could not understand what the two sides were fighting about.

“What do they want, what are they thinking?” Mr. Abdullah said wearily, sitting on a friend’s floor here a week after escaping the war zone, along Yemen’s remote northwestern border with Saudi Arabia.

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More News On Yemen

Yemen rebels 'fight Saudi forces' -- BBC
Yemeni rebels report border clash with Saudi forces -- Reuters
Dozens killed as Houthis, Saudi forces clash -- Press TV
Yemen denies Saudi attack on rebels -- Yemen Observer
North Yemen rebels claim control of key gov't positions -- China View
Yemen Court Sentences 10 Shi'ite Rebels to Death -- New York Times
Yemeni rebels get death penalty -- BBC
Yemeni army suffers heavy losses in Sa'ada -- Press TV
Two Yemeni Soldiers Killed In Ambush In South -- New York Times/Reuters
Yemen army kills 21 rebels and detains 12 others -- Yemen news Agency
Final days of Yemen's war -- Al-Ahram
Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis Worse than Darfur -- Jawa Report
Yemen: A Growing Concern to Counter-terrorism Officials -- Voice of America

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