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Yemen crisis: Saudi Arabia keeps up air strikes, Hadi leaves country

Yemen crisis: Saudi Arabia keeps up air strikes, Hadi leaves country

By :  DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-03-28 11:55 GMT
Warplanes bombed the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday evening, shaking whole neighborhoods and terrifying residents. (Photo: AP)
Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, gather to protest against Saudi-led airstrikes, during a rally in Sanaa. (Photo: AP)
Thousands of Houthi supporters gathered to condemn the air strikes at the gate to Sanaa's old city, waving Houthi banners and chanting "Death to America!" (Photo: AP)
There was heavy street fighting in Houta, north of Aden, in which five pro-Houthi fighters and four militiamen were killed. (Photo: AP)
Warplanes also struck Houthi fighters near Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia, tribal and Houthi sources said. (Photo: AP)
Rescue workers put the death toll at 13, including a doctor pulled from the rubble of his clinic. (Photo: AP)
Saudi Arabia was contributing 100 warplanes to operation "Storm of Resolve" and more than 85 were being provided by the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan. (Photo: AP)
In Sanaa, which the Houthis seized in September, warplanes earlier bombed the main airport and al Dulaimi military air base. (Photo: AP)
The Saudi-led military intervention marked a major escalation of the Yemen crisis, in which Iran supports the Shi'ite Muslim Houthis, and Sunni Muslim monarchies in the Gulf back Hadi and his fellow Sunnis in Yemen's south. (Photo: AP)
Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck at the Shi'ite Houthis and allied army units, who have taken over much of the country and seek to oust Hadi. (Photo: AP)
Yemen crisis: Saudi Arabia keeps up air strikes, Hadi leaves country

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