Alwaght-A large blast targeted a base belonging to Yemen's Shiite Ansarullah in a western district of the capital Sanaa early on Monday, residents said, but it was not clear if there were casualties, Reuters reported.
Yemeni security officials also reported on Sunday that unknown assailants attacked Ansarullah’s headquarters in Dhamar Province, some 100 km (62 miles) from Sana’a, setting off an explosion, Press TV reported .
More than 25 people were also wounded in the bombing .
Although no group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, the al-Qaeda terrorist group in Yemen has targeted the Ansarullah movement in the past .
Over the past months, al-Qaeda militants have frequently carried out attacks on Yemen’s security forces. The militants have been also engaged in battle with the Shiite Ansarullah fighters .
Since Yemen’s central government has so far failed to confront the terrorist threat, Ansarullah fighters, who played a major role in ousting Yemen’s former dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, in 2012, have intervened to fill the vacuum and have driven al-Qaeda militants out of many areas in the country including the capital Sana’a . In September 2014, the Ansarullah movement gained control of the capital, Sana’a, following a four-day battle with army forces loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the half-brother of the former dictator.
Saudi who shares a 1,800-kilometer border with Yemen spares no effort to shackle Yemen's security and stability. Saudi Wahhabi regime, extremist Sunni sect that assume Shiite as its arch-foe, is afraid of establishing a strong government in its southern neighbor in which Shiite will deservedly get the lion's share in the country's power structure.
A study carried out by Abaad Studies and Research Center, indicates a threefold rise from the death toll in 2011, when a popular uprising happened against the country's longtime dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The research noted that about 5,000 Ansarullah revolutionaries were killed in 2014 while
more than 1,200 Yemeni civilians and 1,000 military forces died.
It also put the number of al-Qaeda-affiliated militants at about 500.
