Yemen moves closer to all-out civil war as Houthi rebels advance

By Ruth Pollard
Updated March 24 2015 - 4:08pm, first published 3:44pm

Beirut: As Yemen plunged further into all-out civil war, the country's Foreign Minister Riyadh Yaseen issued a call for Gulf countries to launch military intervention to halt the advance of Shiite Houthi fighters as they pushed south from the capital Sanaa.

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