At least 27 people were killed in Yemen on Saturday as fighting raged in
southern towns between militias and loyalists of exiled President
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, local officials said.
Fighting in southern Yemeni towns between
militias and loyalists of exiled President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi killed
at least 27 people. (File photo: AP)
At least four pro-Hadi forces and six Houthi Shiite militiamen were killed in dawn clashes in the town of Daleh, north of the main southern city of Aden, an official said.
At least four pro-Hadi forces and six Houthi Shiite militiamen were killed in dawn clashes in the town of Daleh, north of the main southern city of Aden, an official said.
Eight more fighters were killed in an ambush.
Farther east, in Loder, pro-Hadi forces killed nine militias in a
rocket-propelled grenade attack, a government official in the town said.
There were also heavy clashes in Aden itself, as Saudi-led warplanes
kept up strikes on rebel positions despite the coalition's announcement
on Tuesday that it was halting the bombing campaign.
Targets included the Houthi-held presidential palace, which was Hadi's
last refuge before he fled to neighboring Saudi Arabia last month,
military officials said.
Coalition warplanes also bombed the Houthi-held Al-Anad air base north
of Aden, which housed U.S. troops supporting a long-running drone war
against Al-Qaeda before the fighting forced their withdrawal.
There was also fighting late on Friday in the eastern province of Marib,
home to some of Yemen's most important oil fields, army officers and
witnesses said.
Loyalist troops at a base in the provincial capital shelled positions in
the nearby Sarwah district, where clashes raged around Yemen's main oil
export pipeline.
The 435-kilometre line links Marib's Safir oil fields with the Ras Isa
terminal on Yemen's Red Sea coast and control of it has been a key goal
for the militias and their allies.
"The Houthi rebels and forces loyal to (former president Ali Abdullah)
Saleh sent reinforcements from (the rebel-controlled capital) Sanaa," an
army officer said.
The persistent fighting comes despite mounting calls for dialogue to end
a conflict that the United Nations says has killed more than 1,000
people since late March, at least 115 of them children.
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