Yemen’s Houthis draw the attention of Iraqis

The Houthis in Yemen recently made the Iraqi headlines, as some consider that there are measures to direct the media toward the support of Shiite parties outside Iraq after internal failures.
An Iraqi Shi'ite youth smokes a water pipe while sitting on a motorcycle in Sadr City in Baghdad April 27, 2014. Iraq is now gripped by its worst violence since the heights of its 2005-2008 sectarian war, and Sunni Islamist insurgents who target Shi'ites have been regaining ground in the country over the past year. But despite the instability, daily life continues in poor Shi'ite neighbourhoods of Baghdad such as Al-Fdhiliya and Sadr City - a sprawling slum marred by poor infrastructure and overcrowding. Pi
An Iraqi Shiite youth smokes a water pipe while sitting on a motorcycle in Sadr City in Baghdad, April 27, 2014. - REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah
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In a cafe in Baghdad, Mohannad and Ali spoke about the control of the Houthis, the group of Abdul Malek al-Houthi, over the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in mid-September, after advancing toward it from the north of Yemen.

The two young men who were smoking shisha were not the only ones preoccupied with this matter, as all Shiite satellite channels and social networking sites in Iraq turned their attention to it.

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