Yemen: Hezbollah fighting with Iran-backed Huthi rebels

Yemen says Lebanon’s Shiite terror group Hezbollah is sending fighters to support Iran-backed Huthi rebels controlling parts of the war-ravaged country, including the capital.

The government has evidence of “Hezbollah’s involvement in the Huthi war against the Yemeni people,” spokesman Rajih Badi says in a statement.

Hezbollah is present in “the battlefields along the border with Saudi Arabia,” where attacks from Yemen have killed about 90 civilians and soldiers in the kingdom since March last year, he says.

The group is training the Shiite Huthis and orchestrating attacks against Saudi Arabia, Badi says, and calls for “international legal measures” against the movement.

“Hezbollah cannot deny its role in the destruction it is contributing to through the clear moral and logistic support” for the rebels, he says.

— AFP

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