Car bomb explodes near military hospital in Yemeni capital

Yemen was previously the preserve of IS’s terrorist rival al Qaeda, which controls swathes of the south and east, but since March the group has claimed a string of high-profile attacks.

As fighting erupted in northern Aden on June 27, sources said eight civilians were killed, including a woman and her three children, in shelling on residential areas by the Houthis. The extremist Sunni militant group considers Shi’ites as heretics and has frequently targeted them in attacks in several countries. They regard the Houthis as apostates worthy of death, and the overnight blast was the latest in a series of attacks on the group and their supporters.

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are demanding that the Huthis pull back from territory seized in their offensive and that President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi be restored to power.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said late Monday that they launched a Scud at a Saudi military base that is located about 700 kilometers (435 miles) southeast of the capital, Riyadh.

This declaration violated the laws of war because it fails to distinguish between civilians and legitimate military targets, Human Rights Watch said.

Over 30 people were injured, Reuters news agency said.

“Saada City’s streets are littered with bomb craters, destroyed buildings, and other evidence of coalition airstrikes”, HRW’s Sarah Leah Whitson said in the report.

He affirmed that the launching of this missile is another message to the aggression states so as to understand the lesson or otherwise we have many such surprises in the days to come.

“We’re not aware of anything”.

Saudi Arabia did not immediately confirm or deny the missile attack.

A Saudi civil defense spokesman, however, said two civilians were lightly wounded Tuesday when a projectile fired from inside Yemen hit their house near the border.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s office on Monday called for an investigation into a Saudi Arabian-led coalition air strike on a United Nations compound in Yemen.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Some 1,200 inmates fled a prison in Yemen on Tuesday after guards deserted their posts amid fierce fighting between Shiite rebels and their opponents, officials said.

The reports indicate that about 2,000 people have been killed and over 500,000 displaced as a result of the conflict in the Arab country since March 19.