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Video shows the beginning of Saudi-led coalition’s ground war in Yemen
August 4, 2015
Since beginning an aerial campaign in March to halt the territorial gains of Houthi rebels in Yemen, the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia has managed to limit its involvement there to bombings and arming its proxies against the Houthis, which Saudi Arabia and its allies consider an arm of the Iranian government. This week, all that changed, as the United Arab Emirates, a member of the coalition, deployed what is reported to be a brigade of tanks and other armored vehicles to boost the fight against the Houthis.
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Compared with their article from June 11, 2015
Hezbollah’s friends in Yemen are trying to lure the Saudis into a ground war
 
Apparently they also invaded from the north

Military reinforcements enter Yemen from Saudi Arabia
AFP August 6, 2015
Saudi Arabia has sent new military equipment including tanks into Yemen to support loyalists fighting Iran-backed Huthi rebels, tribal and military sources said on Thursday.

"Dozens of tanks, armoured vehicles and personnel carriers, as well as hundreds of Yemeni soldiers trained in Saudi Arabia, arrived in Yemen overnight" via the Wadia border post in the north of the country, a Yemeni military source told AFP.
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gosh. all so fucked up. what gets me is that there's so little I can do.....I collect money and send it to people once in a while, but mobile phones rarely work there these days and I have no idea how a lot of my friends and their families are....for all I know half of them could be dead. plus my usual money transfer service has stopped operating in Aden and Taiz, so it's very difficult to get anything through to people outside Sana'a...
 
littleseb said:
gosh. all so fucked up. what gets me is that there's so little I can do.....I collect money and send it to people once in a while, but mobile phones rarely work there these days and I have no idea how a lot of my friends and their families are....for all I know half of them could be dead. plus my usual money transfer service has stopped operating in Aden and Taiz, so it's very difficult to get anything through to people outside Sana'a...
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It's been chaos since the collapse of their oil industry. Hope your friends and their families are okay littleseb.
 
yield said:
It's been chaos since the collapse of their oil industry. Hope your friends and their families are okay littleseb.
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yes. I remember how much optimism there was ten years ago. sure, many problems and issues, but people seemed so pleased to have left the nineties behind....people seemed so proud of their culture and country and had great plans for the future (I'm talking on a very mundane ordinary people basis, not so much about social and political issues which there were many of). all I see now is desperation. it makes me sad to see all this suffering.
thank you yield.
 
UAE pounds Yemen rebels after coalition's deadliest day
Sanaa (AFP) 05/09/15
UAE warplanes carried out air strikes on Yemeni rebels Saturday as Emiratis mourned 45 of their soldiers, who were among dozens killed in the deadliest day yet for the Saudi-led coalition.

Media in Riyadh said 10 Saudi soldiers died in Friday's missile attack in the battleground eastern oil province of Marib.

The strike hit an arms depot, triggering huge explosions that the Yemeni government said also killed five Bahraini troops.
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Friday's losses were the heaviest since the formation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971, and as the bodies arrived home on Saturday three days of national mourning began.
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60 coalition troops dead.
 


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