For the fifth strait day, Saudi security forces have been shelling Houthi positions across the Yemen border. Mohammed Abdel-Salam, a Houthi spokesman, said that the group captured several Saudi soldiers in Yemen territory. If this proves true, it could signal a stronger Saudi involvement in what has been a internal conflict in Yemen since a thousand-year Zaydi Hashemite rule was ended in the 1962 South Yemen civil war. In the larger context, this has been viewed as a proxy fight between Saudi Arabia, who has been giving support to the Yemen military, and Iran, which has been accused of giving material support to the Houthi.
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