REPORT: Houthi leader says Yemen faces Libya-style strife

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REPORT: Houthi leader says Yemen faces Libya-style strife
The leader of Yemen's powerful Houthi movement vowed on Sunday to pursue Islamist militants behind suicide attacks anywhere and said the country was in danger of descending into Libya-style strife.         
 
In a live televised speech, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said his decision to mobilize his fighters amid accelerating violence in recent days was aimed against Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for bombings that killed more than 130 in the capital Sanaa on Friday, and against al Qaeda.         
 
He also criticized the U.N. Security Council, saying it was led by countries that plotted "evil" against others. 
 
Earlier on Sunday, Houthi fighters opposed to Yemen's president took over the central city of Taiz in an escalation of a power struggle diplomats say risks drawing in neighboring oil giant Saudi Arabia and its main regional rival Iran.         
 
Residents of Taiz, on a main road from the capital Sanaa to the country's second city of Aden, said that Houthi militias took over the city's military airport without a struggle from local authorities late on Saturday.         
 
Eyewitnesses in the central province of Ibb reported seeing dozens of tanks and military vehicles headed southward from Houthi-controlled areas toward Taiz, while activists in the city said Houthi gunmen shot into the air to disperse protests by residents demonstrating against their presence.           
 
Conflict has been spreading across Yemen since last year when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and effectively removed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who now seeks a comeback from his base in Aden.               
 
The advance of the Iranian-backed group has angered Sunni Gulf Arab states led by Saudi Arabia.             
 
The Houthi spread into mostly Sunni areas in the center and west have led to months of clashes with local tribes and al Qaeda, raising fears that the poor and heavily armed country at the base of the Arabian peninsula might descend into civil war.                      
 
 
 
REUTERS
 
 
To watch Remmy Derbass's report, please click on the VIDEO above
 

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