IS claims responsibility for Yemeni mosque attacks

PanARMENIAN.Net - ISIS claimed responsibility on social media for the two suicide bombings at a mosque in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, CNN reports.

Dozens of people were wounded in the bombings, Yemeni Defense Ministry officials said.

The first attack targeted Al Moayyad mosque, a pro-Houthi neighborhood in northern Sanaa and the second bombing took place as civilians were trying to help the victims of the first attack, ministry officials said, according to CNN.

This is the fifth mosque attack over the past two months in Sanaa. The attacks have targeted pro-Houthi mosques.

It's all part of the turmoil and violence that has wracked Yemen for months, as the Houthis -- a minority group that has long held sway in northern Yemen -- increasingly asserted themselves elsewhere in the country, including taking over Sanaa early this year.

Houthi rebels are acting as the government in Yemen, while the internationally recognized government is in exile. There has been off-and-on talks of ceasefires, but nothing so far has stuck.