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\"\"Over 7,700 Yemenis were killed over the course of 2014 due to armed clashes, according to a study published by a Yemeni NGO late Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The study conducted by Abaad Studies and Research Center noted that the 2014 figures represent a threefold increase from the toll of 2011, when a popular uprising broke out against the country’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.<\/span>
Sources for the figures cited in the study were not revealed.<\/span>
According to the study, the Yemeni military lost more than 1,000 troops during 2014, of which at least 600 were killed by members of the Shiite Houthi militant group.<\/span>
The remaining 400 Yemeni troops were killed mostly by Al-Qaeda militants and other armed groups, the study said.<\/span>
In terms of civilian casualties, the study estimates that more than 1,200 people were killed during armed clashes in 2014.<\/span>
The study also claims that over 5,000 Houthis were killed across Yemen in 2014.<\/span>
Losses within the ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen are estimated between 400 and 500, the study said.<\/span>
For the last several months, Yemen’s Shiite Houthi group \u2013 which boasts thousands of diehard supporters \u2013 has been trying to step up its armed presence across the fractious country.<\/span>
The Houthi movement has recently emerged as a political and military power in Yemen after taking over Sanaa and seeking to extend its influence into other provinces.<\/span>
The Houthis’ growing power has pitted the group against Sunni tribes and Al-Qaeda, the latter of which is said to still be active in certain parts of the country. <\/span>
The recent ascendance of the Shiite Houthis has also caused concern in predominantly Sunni-Muslim Gulf States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior army official assassinated<\/strong><\/span>
As clashes continue in Yemen, an Al-Qaeda-linked group claimed to have killed two army troops in an ambush in the southern province of Shabwah on Saturday evening.<\/span>
“Our fighters have ambushed an army vehicle in the area between Saieed and Dalaa in Shabwah, leaving two soldiers dead,” Ansar al-Sharia militant group said on Twitter early Sunday.<\/span>
The group did not say whether any of its militants were killed in the attack.<\/span>
Meanwhile, a senior Yemeni army official was assassinated by unidentified gunmen also in Shabwah, a local official said Sunday.<\/span>
“Unidentified gunmen killed Col. Hamoud Zarhani, commander of the 21st Brigade, as he drove his car through the center of provincial capital Ataq,” the official, requesting anonymity, told Anadolu Agency.<\/span>
The gunmen fled the scene following the attack, he added.<\/span>
No group has claimed responsibility for the deadly shooting yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Central Yemen blast leaves 5 Houthis dead<\/strong><\/span>
The death toll from an explosion that took place in Yemen’s central province of Dhamar on Sunday has risen to five, a medical source said.<\/span>
The blast also left 24 other people injured, the source added, noting that both the dead and injured victims belonged to the Shiite Houthi movement.<\/span>
“All victims were taken to hospital after a bomb went off near a building used as a base by Houthis,” the source from Dhamar’s Public Hospital told The Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity.<\/span>
He added that the dead victims included a journalist who was filming an attempt by Houthis to defuse the bomb before it went off.<\/span>
“Fourteen out of the 24 injured victims were transferred to hospitals in capital Sanaa due to their serious injuries,” the source said.<\/span>
Earlier Sunday, the same source told AA that three Houthi militants were killed in a bomb blast after they had failed to defuse the bomb.<\/span>
AA could not immediately obtain comments from the Houthi leadership on the blast.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: World Bulletin<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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