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Analysis: How much firepower do Yemen’s Houthis still possess?

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Arab News · Saudi Arabia · Middle East

On Dec. 18, 2009, Houthi fighters in northern Yemen fired several artillery rockets across the border into Saudi Arabia. No casualties were recorded in what may have been the group’s first cross-border projectile attack on the Kingdom. Yet 17 years later, that strike stands as the opening salvo in a campaign of intermittent bombardment that has claimed hundreds of innocent lives. Over that time, the sophistication and lethality of the Houthi missile arsenal have grown exponentially. Events over

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