War Conflicts Yemen April-2015 Yemen

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Saudi Arabia, spearheading a coalition of nine Arab states, began carrying out airstrikes in neighbouring Yemen on 25 March 2015, heralding the start of a military intervention codenamed OperationDecisive Storm (Arabic: عملية عاصفة الحزم). The intervention began in response to requests for assistance from the internationally recognized but domestically contested Yemeni government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. The request was due to a Houthi offensive aimed at its provisional capital of Aden. President Hadi fled Aden,left the country and went to Saudi Arabia as Saudi Arabia and its allies launched airstrikes in Yemen against the Houthis and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was deposed in the 2011Arab Spring uprisings
Warplanes from Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain are also taking part in the operation. Somalia has made its airspace, territorial waters, and military bases available for the coalition to use. The United Stateshas provided intelligence and logistical support, including search-and-rescue for downed coalition pilots,^[10] and accelerated the sale of weapons to coalition states.^[39] Pakistan was also called on by Saudi Arabia to join the coalition, but its parliament voted to maintain neutrality.^[40] Despite this, Pakistan agreed to provide warships to help the coalition enforce an arms embargo against the Houthis.

300,000 people have been displaced by the fighting as of 28 April.^[41]Many countries, such as China, Pakistan, Somalia,^[42] and India^[43]have evacuated or plan to evacuate foreign citizens.^[44] Many groups have begun to flee Yemen for northern Somalia and Djibouti.^[45] The air-campaign claimed the lives of at least 311 civilians by mid-April

Yemen Result Ongoing Saudi-led coalition claims to have achieved its military goals[17] Saudi failure to destroy the Houthi rebels[18] and halt their advance[19] Saudi failure to restore the government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi[20] Saudi-led naval blockade continues for an unspecified period of time[21] Saudi-led coalition announced an end to the airstrike campaign and the beginning of an operation aimed at a political solution,[22] however, air-strikes continue[

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IT WAS a short-lived ceasefire. On April 21st Saudi Arabia declared the end of “Operation Decisive Storm”, a three-week long campaign of air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, which had supposedly achieved its objectives. But a few hours later Houthi fighters claimed control of a Yemeni army compound in Taiz, Yemen’s third city, and the Saudis resumed air strikes. The conflict in Yemen has quickly become one of the region’s proxy wars between a Sunni coalition led by Saudi Arabia, which backs the government of Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and Iran, which backs the Houthis, who are Shias (though of the Zaydi branch, rather than Iran's so-called “Twelver” branch).


http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/04/daily-chart-11?zid=312&ah=da4ed4425e74339883d473adf5773841

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Saudi Arabia: 3 Saudi troops and dozens of Yemeni rebels killed in border clashes

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http://beforeitsnews.com/war-and-conflict/2015

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The violence of the latest war to engulf the Arab world’s poorest country is a far cry from those hopeful days. A Saudi-led coalition has been bombing Yemen for 12 days in an attempt to fight off an advance by Houthi rebels who took control of Sana’a and advanced on the southern port city of Aden, exiling the president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and threatening to plunge the country into all-out civil war.

http://www.theguardian.com/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-led_intervention_in_Yemen_(2015%E2%80%93present)