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High-ranking officials in Yemen’s port city of Aden say al-Qaida militants have taken control of key areas of the city.

Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, has become the latest battleground in an increasingly deadly and complicated conflict. The well-known activists, who campaign for more autonomy for the south, said al-Qaida and other sleeper cells were buying and storing weapons from that market.

“The scale of human suffering is nearly incomprehensible”.

“It is with utmost dismay that I learned of the airstrike on a teachers’ office in Amran, Yemen which killed 13 teachers, 4 children and injured 20 people on Tuesday night”.

Saudi-led coalition warships were said to be en route to the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah as coalition air strikes pounded Houthi rebel targets in the city.

All participants in the Yemen conflict have “left a bloody trail of death and destruction” across the southern cities of Ta’iz and Aden and may have committed war crimes, Amnesty global said Tuesday.

The bombing has been more or less continuous, with multiple ceasefire agreements and so-called humanitarian pauses breached nearly as soon as they were announced. With only 16 per cent of the agency’s funding appeal of $182.6 million met so far, Yemen is one of the most...

“More than 65 civilians in the province of Taiz, Yemen have been killed in Saudi-led air strikes today, including 17 people from one family”.

Washington said the strikes seemingly targeted Huthi rebels but also reportedly killed dock workers and damaged infrastructure.

Several bombs exploded outside a building used by the intelligence services in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Saturday, causing fires to break out but no casualties, a local official said.

The killing of civilians by Saudi Arabia-led coalition airstrikes and attacks by pro and anti-Huthi armed groups in Ta’iz and Aden in Yemen could amount to war crimes, Amnesty worldwide has revealed in a new briefing published Tuesday.

Clashes also continued in Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, where anti-Houthi security officials said they took over a house belonging to Saleh and other government buildings.

Jets from a Saudi-led coalition focused insurgent Houthi positions in Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida early on Tuesday, port officers stated, destroying cranes and warehouses at a fundamental import hub for crucial assist provides to the nation’s north....

The Saudi-led alliance began its air strikes in late March as the Shi’ite Houthis entered Aden.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), viewed by Washington as the extremist network’s most risky branch, has taken advantage of the chaos to seize the southern port city of Mukalla, capital of the vast desert Hadramawt province.