Over 70 followers of a slain rebel preacher were killed and the army sustained dozens of casualties in two days of fierce clashes in northwest Yemen that ended with government forces taking control of rebel outposts, tribal sources said. “More than 70 followers of (Sheikh Hussein Badr Eddin al-Huthi) were killed in the fighting which went on throughout Wednesday and until Thursday night” in Saada province, where the two sides have been locked in combat since March 28, one source told AFP, requesting anonymity.Full Story