Arab coalition targets Yemeni militias, 17 killed
Saudi-led Arab Coalition has targeted a congregation of Iran-backed Houthi militias and their allied Saleh forces in Mokha port city
Saudi-led Arab Coalition has targeted on Friday a congregation of Iran-backed Houthi militias and their allied forces belonging to toppled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Mokha port city west of Taiz province, killing 17 and wounding dozens others.
Heavy clashes were also taking placed between Houthis and Saleh allied forces, and the Yemeni Army-backed Popular Resistance committees in the eastern, northern and western fronts in Taiz.
The clashes followed after a Houthi attack against the Popular Resistance committees and Yemeni Army sites in Tha’abat, Juhaimilya and Bazir’a neighborhoods east of Taiz.
On Tuesday, Houthis fired a rocket in a residential neighborhood of Marib city, east of the capital, killing seven children.
The fresh clashes and the Marib attack followed after Hadi government and Houthi negotiators took a break from peace talks after two months of UN-backed negotiations that have made little progress.
The talks are due to resume on July 15 in Kuwait.
The conflict in Yemen has killed more than 6,400 people dead and wounded 30,000 since the Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015.
Saudi Arabia aims to restore exiled Hadi to power and assert government control over large parts of the country that had been taken over by the Houthis in 2014.
Also Read
-
Yemen’s drained central bank stops cashing govt employee salaries
Meanwhile, banking officials said the central bank suffers from a lack of liquidity after Houthi militias drained the bank’s foreign exchange reserves Economy -
Saudi deputy crown prince discusses Yemen with UN envoy
The two met in Mecca to discuss the situation in Yemen Middle East -
Rebel rocket fire kills seven children in Yemen: officials
A rocket fired by Iran-backed rebels in Yemen on Tuesday killed seven children in a residential neighborhood of Marib city Middle East -
Saudi FM, Kerry hold impromptu talks on ISIS
They also discussed the need for a political transition in Syria, the situation in Libya, the effort to reach a political resolution in Yemen Middle East -
Militants seize airport army HQ in Yemen’s Aden
The attackers detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the base, allowing a second vehicle to drive inside where it exploded Middle East -
Suicide bomb kills 10 near Yemen’s Aden airport
A suicide car bomber struck a military and security compound adjacent to the international airport in southern Yemeni port city of Aden Middle East
