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Yemen's top factions are squaring off for battle after months of skirmishes in what may become all-out war.
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Anti-Houthi protesters demonstrate in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz, March 23, 2015. REUTERS/Anees Mahyoub
Anti-Houthi protesters demonstrate in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz, March 23, 2015. Yemen's top factions are squaring off for battle after months of skirmishes, turning respectively to neighboring Saudi Arabia and its regional rival Iran for help in what may become all-out war. REUTERS/Anees Mahyoub
Mourners bury the body of Bashar Arhab, a victim of one of Friday's suicide bombings at mosques, in a grave in Sanaa, March 23, 2015. Suicide bombers killed at least 137 worshippers and wounded hundreds more during Friday prayers at two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, in coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Militants loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi patrol in the southern port city of Aden, March 23, 2015. REUTERS/Nabeel Quaiti
Anti-Houthi protesters run as pro-Houthi police troopers open fire in the air to disperse them in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz, March 23, 2015. REUTERS/Anees Mahyoub
A tank is seen at an army post seized by the Southern People's Resistance militants loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in al-Habilin of Yemen's southern province of Lahej, March 22, 2015. REUTERS/Nabeel Quaiti
Southern People's Resistance militants loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi gather at the al-Anad air base in the country's southern province of Lahej, after seizing it, March 22, 2015. REUTERS/Nabeel Quaiti
People look inside a damaged mosque after Friday's suicide bomb attack in Sanaa, March 22, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi
A man injured in one of Friday's suicide bomb attacks lies on a hospital bed in Sanaa, March 21, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Crime scene investigators work after a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in Sanaa, March 20, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi
Militia men loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi loot the barracks of the Special Forces in the southern port city of Aden, March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Yaser Hasan
People walk by a police armoured personnel carrier attacked by militants in Lahej near Yemen's southern port city of Aden, March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
Followers of the Houthi movement take part in a demonstration to commemorate the anniversary of an attack on pro-democracy protesters, in SanaaMarch 18, 2015. The attack, known as the "Friday of Dignity Massacre", on protesters rallying against the rule of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, left scores dead in March 2011. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Armed members of the separatist Southern Movement secure a street in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, March 18, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
An army tank enters the barracks of the Special Forces in Yemen's southern port city of Aden March 19, 2015. An unidentified warplane attacked the presidential palace in Aden after rival forces fought the worst clashes in years in Yemen's second city, in a sharp escalation of the country's months-long armed turmoil. REUTERS/Yaser Hasan
A soldier supporting Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, the son of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, shouts slogans during a demonstration to demand for a presidential elections be held and for him to run for presidency in Sanaa, March 10, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Militia men secure a street leading to the airport during clashes in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
Houthi fighters holding weapons ride on the back of a patrol truck in Sanaa, March 6, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
A policeman stands on a police vehicle outside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa after the road in front of the embassy was opened by the police, March 4, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
A follower of the separatist Southern Movement burns tyres during a protest to demand the separation of southern Yemen in Aden, March 2, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer