The ruling armed Houthi rebels in Yemen issued a state of general mobilization on Saturday in response to bomb attacks by Daesh that killed over 140 of its people.
The decision was taken to fend off what was described as the "imminent national security challenges of the criminal Al-Qaeda and Daesh (groups)." It comes a day after suicide bomb attacks, claimed by the Daesh militant group, on two mosques killed over 140 of the Houthi community.
Houthi rebels seized control of the country in a coup d'etat in February. The move was fiercely condemned by neighbouring Gulf states and the international community, who remain in full unequivocal support of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.