Zitat:Im September 2004 wurde in den Bergen der nordjemenitischen Provinz Saada Hussein al-Huthi, der Führer einer lokalen Rebellengruppe, von jemenitischen Regierungstruppen getötet. Die Führung der paar hundert Kämpfer Husseins übernahm dessen Bruder, der erst 22-jährige Abdelmalik. Zehn Jahre später besetzten Tausende von Huthi-Kämpfern die Hauptstadt Sanaa, und Abdelmalik al-Huthi diktierte Präsident Abedrabbu Mansur Hadi seine Friedensbedingungen. Jemen, geschüttelt von bitterer Armut, revolutionärer Unrast, Machtintrigen und Terrorismus, hat wieder einen starken Mann.

Zitat:IRGC Officers Freed in Yemen

Asharq al-Awsat reports that several Iranian military personnel, probably IRGC or IRGC-QF officers, who were detained in Yemen, were released on Wednesday after the Huthi rebels took control of the country’s national security headquarters where the detainees were being held. The Huthis are in control of most of the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

The Iranians were the crew of the Jihan 1, an Iranian ship that was captured off Yemeni coast in January 2013 for smuggling a large cache of weapons into Yemen. Yemeni security sources told Asharq al-Awsat that the Iranians were affiliated with the IRGC.
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Meanwhile, Yemeni authorities released two other Iranians they arrested earlier this year at Sanaa International Airport on charges of training Huthi insurgents, AFP reported on Thursday.
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Zitat:Shia rebels seize control of port city and province in Yemen
The Guardian, Tuesday 14 October 2014 13.56 BST

Sana'a Yemen Shia rebels who recently overran Sana’a (pictured) already control the provinces of Saada and Omran north of the capital. Photograph: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

Shia rebels who recently overran Yemen’s capital seized control of a key port city on the Red Sea and a province south of Sana’a on Tuesday.

The development indicates that the rebels, known as the Houthis, may be determined to carve out a mini-state within Yemen, taking advantage of the weakness of the central government and the disarray in the army and security forces.

The Houthis, who are widely believed to be supported by Iran, already control the provinces of Saada and Omran north of the capital.

On Tuesday, they pushed into the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, west of Sana’a, and the capital of a province with the same name, which they have besieged for days, said Yemeni officials.

The rebels set up checkpoints and deployed forces at all entry points to the city, its airport and seaport, and were also in control of several military bases inside Hodeida, 125 miles west of Sana’a.
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Houthi rebels have captured the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida, including its airport and sea port.
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Zitat:15 October 2014 Last updated at 16:27 GMT
Shia Houthi rebels and al-Qaeda clash in south Yemen

Shia rebels and suspected Sunni al-Qaeda militants have been engaged in heavy fighting in southern Yemen.

Security officials and tribal sources said at least 10 people were killed in clashes around the town of Radaa in Bayda province late on Tuesday.
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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has vowed to fight the Houthis in defence of Sunnis and last week it said it was behind a suicide bomb attack on a rally by Houthi supporters in Sanaa that killed 47 people.

On Wednesday afternoon, the rebels were reported to have sent fighters towards the city of Ibb, a bastion of the jihadist group and its allies 150 km (90 miles) south of the capital.
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Zitat:Houthi victories in Yemen make Saudi Arabia nervous

It’s the House of Saud’s worse nightmare come true. The stunning success of the Zaydi Houthi rebellion in Yemen places a Shiite group with connections to Iran on the soft underbelly of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, erasing years of Saudi efforts to stabilize Yemen and keep it in the Saudi orbit.
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Before the Arab Spring came to Yemen in 2011 the Saudis supported then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s military campaigns against the Houthis and fought a series of their own military campaigns against them along the border after 2009. The Saudi army and air force were not particularly effective in these operations, so any residual Saudi-Zaydi affection was long gone by the time Saleh was ousted and his deputy Hadi took charge of Yemen.

What concerns the Saudis the most is the Iranian connection to the Houthis. Saleh alleged Iranian help to the rebels as early as 2004, but it wasn’t until 2012 that US officials began confirming that Tehran was aiding the Houthis. Iran, with its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, has been shipping small arms and ammunition to the Houthis for several years now and also providing limited quantities of financial aid. Last month, the Yemeni authorities deported to Oman two Iranians whom they accused of being members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force arrested in Yemen assisting the Houthis.

Whatever the extent of Iranian aid to the Houthis, Riyadh believes it is extensive and critical to their success. A senior Saudi prince recently told me that the kingdom is now surrounded by Iranian proxies.
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Zitat:Houthis take over military base in Marib

SANA’A, Nov. 10—Armed Houthis took over the Al-Mas military base located in the Medghil Al-Jedaan district of Marib governorate on Sunday evening.
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Zitat:Yemen Shi’ites capture key district from al Qaeda, 35 people dead
November 14, 2014 21:59

SANAA: Yemeni Shi’ite Muslim Houthi fighters backed by government forces drove the local wing of al Qaeda from one of its last strongholds in central Yemen on Friday in intense fighting that killed at least 35 people, tribal sources said.
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Zitat:Heute, 17:35
Jemen: Huthi-Rebellen wollen gemeinsam mit Russland US-Aggression widerstehen

STIMME RUSSLANDS Die Rebellenbewegung Ansar Allah (die Huthis), die weite Teile des Jemen kontrolliert, will laut ihrem Politbürochef Saleh al-Samad gemeinsam mit Russland der aggressiven Politik der USA widerstehen.

„Wir schätzen die Rolle Russlands in der Widerstandsachse gegen das US-amerikanische Projekt, das nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion Gesetzlosigkeit mit sich bringt“, sagte as-Sammad in einem Interview für RIA Novosti. Moskau spiele in Syrien, im Libanon und bei der Lösung des palästinensischen Problems eine konstruktive Rolle, lobte as-Sammad, der dem jemenitischen Präsidenten Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi als Berater beisteht. Russlands Handlungen hätten die Situation in der Region stabilisiert. „Wir wollen gemeinsam mit den Russen den USA widerstehen, die die ganze Welt kontrollieren wollen.“

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Zitat:Anschlag auf Irans Botschaft im Jemen
Stand: 03.12.2014 09:43 Uhr

Bei einem Anschlag auf die iranischen Botschaft in Jemens Hauptstadt Sanaa sind mindestens drei Menschen getötet worden. Nach Informationen aus Sicherheitskreisen brachte der Attentäter sein mit Sprengstoff beladenes Auto vor dem Gebäude im streng bewachten Diplomatenviertel zur Explosion.
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Zitat:Islamisten veröffentlichten Video von im Jemen entführter US-Geisel
4. Dezember 2014, 20:00

Dubai - Die Islamistengruppe Al-Kaida auf der arabischen Halbinsel (AQAP) hat in einem Video mit der Ermordung einer US-Geisel binnen drei Tagen gedroht. Wie das auf die Auswertung islamistischer Internetportale spezialisierte US-Unternehmen Site am Donnerstag mitteilte, handelt es sich bei der Geisel um einen Fotografen, der im September 2013 in Sanaa entführt wurde.
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Zitat:Strategisch bedeutende Lage

Der Kampf gegen die Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat (IS) im Irak und in Syrien füllt fast täglich die Schlagzeilen. Der Jemen gerät nur selten und wenn meist mit Selbstmordattentaten und Geiselnahmen ins Blickfeld der westlichen Öffentlichkeit. Die dortigen Entwicklungen haben aber nicht zuletzt aufgrund der strategischen Lage enorme Auswirkungen - auf den Nahen Osten und auch auf den Westen.
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Simone Leonhartsberger, ORF.at
Publiziert am 26.12.2014

Zitat:Charlie Hebdo suspect trained in Qaeda camps: Yemen sources
10 Jan12:05 AM

[DUBAI] One of the suspects in the attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo studied in Yemen where he attended Al-Qaeda training camps, Yemeni security sources and a classmate said on Friday.

The sources said Said Kouachi appeared at various times between 2009 and 2013 in the troubled Arabian peninsula country, firstly as a student at Sanaa's Al-Iman University, a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism, and then at Al-Qaeda training camps in south and southeast Yemen.
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Zitat:Yemeni rebels hold president captive in home
By Ahmed al-Haj, The Associated Press 11 a.m. EST January 21, 2015

SANAA, Yemen — Shiite rebels in control of Yemen's capital now hold the country's president "captive" at his home, his aides said Wednesday, putting in question who actually rules the Arab world's most-impoverished nation.
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Hadi "cannot leave his house" after Houthi rebels removed his guards and deployed their own fighters there Wednesday, one aide said.
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The advisers said Wednesday that Houthis issued a list of demands to Hadi, asking for the post of vice president and several key government offices, during a meeting Tuesday with Hadi's advisers.

The Houthis say they only want an equal share of power, while critics say that they prefer presence of Hadi as a symbolic leader while they keep a grip on power.
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Zitat:Krise im Jemen
Rebellen und Präsident einigen sich

Stand: 21.01.2015 20:58 Uhr Die Kämpfe in der jemenitischen Hauptstadt Sanaa sollen eingestellt werden. Darauf verständigten sich die schiitischen Huthi-Rebellen und Präsident Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi, wie die jemenitische Nachrichtenagentur Saba meldete. Im Gegenzug für die Räumung des Präsidentenpalastes durch die Rebellen werde der von ihnen kritisierte Entwurf der neuen Verfassung geändert, berichtete die Nachrichtenagentur.

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Zitat: 22. Januar 2015, 11:20
Jemen Staat als Beute

In Jemen braut sich ein Sturm zusammen. Schiitische Milizionäre, sunnitische Stämme, al-Qaida, Iran und Saudi-Arabien, sie alle mischen mit im ärmsten Land Arabiens. Der gefährliche Konflikt darf dem Westen nicht egal sein.

Ein Kommentar von Paul-Anton Krüger
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