Rocket hits government headquarters in Aden

It said four Emirati soldiers were among the coalition forces killed and that several others were wounded.

“Damning evidence of war crimes by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition, which is armed by states including the U.S., highlights the urgent need for independent, effective investigation of violations in Yemen and for the suspension of transfers of certain arms”, the Amnesty global said.

“The attack undermines the number one priority of the government, which has to be restoring security”, analyst Adam Baron of the European Council on Foreign Relations told dpa.

They held a cabinet meeting later and vowed to continue to work from Aden “until every part of the country is liberated” from the Houthis, according to the official Saba news agency.

IS published the names and photographs of the four alleged assailants.

“The report, titled “‘Bombs fall from the sky day and night’: “Civilians under fire in northern Yemen” focuses on the plight of civilians in the rebel Shiite Huthi strongholds.

IS said four suicide bombers struck the government headquarters and positions of the Saudi-led coalition, a claim that contradicted official accounts of a rebel rocket attack.

But in a statement to Saudi daily Al Sharq Al Awsat, Brigadier General Ahmad Asiri said that the attack was carried out by the Houthi rebels and not by coalition forces.

Al-Qaeda and Islamic State militants “enjoy a considerable freedom of movement” in Aden, Baron said, citing conversations with residents.

There is fear all over the flurry of citizen deaths in Yemen recently, that’s shown via the demises of extra versus 100 people at large at a wedding get-together inside the southwestern AlovervallenWahijah local of Yemen all over the event.

An AFP photographer saw helicopters evacuating casualties from a nearby residence for coalition members, as plumes of smoke rose from it. Smoke was also rising from adjacent barracks used by the Saudi-led forces.

“The Gulf states in particular talk a lot about the military aspect of their intervention”.

Rajeh Badi, a spokesman for Yemen’s exiled government, said all government ministers and the prime minister were safe and unhurt.

“Aden is the key test case”, Baron argued.

This comes as the Joint Forces recaptured the strategic Bab El-Mandeb strait last Thursday, another important victory over the Houthis in the country’s southern region.

On September 4, a rebel missile attack in the eastern Yemeni province of Marib killed 67 coalition troops, including 52 Emiratis.

Salem al-Yazidi, a fighter in a local militia allied with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who remains in sanctuary in Saudi Arabia, described chaotic scenes when he rushed to aid the victims of the blast at the plush al-Qasr hotel.

The Sunni Gulf states fear that the rebels will give their regional rival, Shiite Iran, a foothold on the Arabian Peninsula.