{"id":5710,"date":"2015-02-14T08:47:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2015-02-14T08:47:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T13:47:05","slug":"yemeni-houthi-fighters-fire-on-protesters-after-clashes-kill-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5710","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni Houthi fighters fire on protesters after clashes kill 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/02\/14\/us-emirates-yemen-idUSKBN0LI06H20150214\" target=\"_blank\">Yemeni Houthi fighters fire on protesters after clashes kill 26<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Tens of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in several cities on Saturday against the rule of the Shi&#8217;ite Muslim Houthi movement whose gunmen fired on protesters in the central town of Ibb and wounded four, medics said.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second day of nationwide demonstrations against the Iranian-backed Houthis in less then a week after its dissolution of parliament this month unraveled security and sent Western and Arab embassies packing.<\/p>\n<p>Activists said they were enraged by the death on Saturday of Saleh al-Bashiri, who they say was detained by gunmen as they broke up an anti-Houthi protest in Sanaa two weeks ago and was released to a hospital with signs of torture on his body on Thursday. There was no immediate comment from the Houthis.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s upheaval has drawn international concern as it shares a long border with top world oil exporter\u00a0<a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1svR331\" rel=\"nofollow\">Saudi\u00a0Arabia<\/a>, and the country is also fighting one of the most formidable branches of al Qaeda with the help of U.S. drone strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy clashes between Houthi fighters and Sunni Muslim tribesmen fighting alongside Al Qaeda militants in the southern mountainous province of al-Bayda on Saturday killed 16 Houthi rebels along with 10 Sunni tribesmen and militants, security officials and tribal sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The state faces collapse in impoverished, strife-torn\u00a0Yemen\u00a0two weeks after the Houthis took formal control of the country and continued an armed push southward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemeni Houthi fighters fire on protesters after clashes kill 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Tens of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in several cities on Saturday against the rule of the Shi&#8217;ite Muslim Houthi movement whose gunmen fired on protesters in the central town of Ibb and wounded four, medics said. It was the second day of nationwide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3504,441,701,1633,1899,901],"class_list":["post-5710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-houthis","tag-iran","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shia","tag-sunni","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}