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Yemen's president calls on his people to mobilise against Iran-backed Houthis

France 2425 September 2026, 20:41 UTCYemen

Yemen’s Riyadh-based President Rashid al-Alimi on Friday called on ‌his people to mobilise and join the armed ‌forces while offering a general amnesty to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels who have seized swaths of Yemen's Red Sea coast and imposed a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia.

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