Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Saudi Arabia building up heavy military equipment near Yemen border as proxy war heats up.

          Saudi Arabia is reportedly building up heavy military equipment include significant mechanized infantry forces and artillery near Yemen border, U.S official speaking with condition of anonymity said on Wednesday. The deployment comes days after Iran backed Houthi rebels took control of Yemen third largest city of Taiz. Hauthi rebels seized the capital Sana'a last septenber and attempt to negotiates with then fails last year after the capture of the capital Sana'a. The Houthi rebels later kept the Yemen legitimate president Abd - Rabbu Mansour on house arrest. Few weeks ago the president escaped from House arrest and ran to Eden town, southern Yemen where he declayed, he is till the legitimate president of Yemen. Since then, Hadi has been running Yemen from Eden which he called the Yemeni new capital. The Houthi advanced further over the weekend when its fighters captured the town of Taiz. The Saudis appear posed to intervene in the civil war in defense of president Mansour Hadi.

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