Houthis target presidential palace in Yemen's Aden
Yemen's Houthis on Thursday fired missiles at the presidential palace in Aden, which also serves as the headquarters of the internationally recognized government, security sources told AFP, while a journalist saw smoke rising from the site.
"Houthi missiles targeted the Al-Maashiq presidential palace in Aden," the government's interim capital, three local police sources said on condition of anonymity, after residents of the southern city reported hearing explosions.
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Google says:
Hezbollah (meaning "Party of God") is a Shiite Islamist political party and militant group based in Lebanon.
Key Facts:
• Origins: Founded in 1982 during the chaos of the Lebanese Civil War with support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), originally to resist the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon.
• Role in Lebanon: Functioned for decades as "a state within a state", combining an extensive social services, healthcare, and educational network with a major political bloc (the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc) and a powerful paramilitary wing (the Jihad Council). Its military and security activities have been prohibited by the Lebanese government since March 2026.
• Ideology and Alliances: A core member of the Iran-led "Axis of Resistance," it is heavily funded, trained, and armed by Iran. It is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel, and numerous other countries
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Google: "what role does Lebanon's constitutional article 24 play in Hezbullah's history?"Article 24 of the Lebanese Constitution regulates the confessional power-sharing system that has both hindered and enabled Hezbollah's historical trajectory. By codifying a rigid formula that guarantees equal parliamentary representation between Christians and Muslims, Article 24 serves as a structural blueprint of the Lebanese state. Hezbollah has spent decades maneuvering within, pushing back against, and ultimately leveraging this constitutional framework to transform from an underground 1980s militia into Lebanon's dominant political and military force. (It goes on from there, all very fascinating, such as the 1989 change from 6:5 to half-half representation of "Christians" in parliament against everybody else.
Google says the "internationally recognized government" is physically located in Riyadh, KSA. AFP is a part of the French government. What is it playing at?