By Jeremy Bowen BBC Middle East editor, Sanaa 23 June 2015 From the section Middle East Three months of Saudi-led bombing has so far failed to defeat the Houthis Saudi Arabia and their allies need to think again about the bombing campaign in Yemen. They are nowhere close to breaking the will of the Houthis, their main target. The Houthis started as insurgents from north Yemen. Last September, with the co-operation of the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his considerable forces, they took the capital, Sanaa. King Salman, Saudi Arabia's new monarch, put together a coalition to attack the Houthis when in March they looked close to capturing Aden, the main city in the south. Since then...
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