article_snippet: The Ministry of Defence does not comment on special forces matters.
article_snippet: That split the army, parliament was dissolved in February and violence continues to intensify between the two sides.
article_snippet: Gulf Arab countries will take necessary measures to protect the region against 'aggression' by the Houthi group if a peaceful solution cannot be found to that country's turmoil, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said today.
article_snippet: Prince Saud, who also remarked that the kingdom opposed Iranian 'interference' in Yemen, was speaking at a joint news conference in Riyadh with visiting British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
article_snippet: British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Britain would discuss with Saudi Arabia and the United States how to reinforce the position of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, adding: 'None of us wants to see military action.'
highlights_snippet: Northern group continues to move south after taking capital in September .
  
highlights_snippet: Country on brink of civil war which may involve neighbouring Saudi Arabia .
  