Yemen clashes between Shi'ite rebels and tribesmen kill 22 - sources


  • World
  • Wednesday, 17 Sep 2014

SANAA (Reuters) - Twenty-two people were killed in fighting between Shi'ite Muslim rebels and government-allied tribesmen in northern Yemen on Monday and Tuesday, tribal and local sources told Reuters.

The fighting in al-Jawf province, northeast of the capital Sanaa, is further destabilising a country struggling to overcome a range of threats including a secessionist movement in its south and the spread of an al Qaeda insurgency.

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