North Yemen clashes kill 60: tribal sources

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - On Friday, the clashes took place in Omran province, which has been a scene of fighting between the Houthi Shias and pro-Salafist militants."The fighting, the heaviest since the clashes broke out in Omran, erupted at dawn on Friday in Wadi Khiwan and Wadi Danan and in other areas of the Huth and Isha districts," said a tribal source.Another tribal source also said that Friday’s “fighting was the fiercest."Yemen’s Shia Houthi movement draws its name from the tribe of its founding leader Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi.The Houthi movement played a key role in the popular revolution that forced former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 33 years, stepped down in February 2012 under a US-backed power transfer deal in return for immunity, after a year of mass street demonstrations demanding his ouster.Yemen is the Arab world’s poorest country. Forty percent of the people of Yemen are living on two US dollars a day or less and one third are wrestling with chronic hunger./149