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A bomb destroyed the secret police headquarters in Aden on Saturday, residents of the southern Yemen city said, in an attack that one official blamed on Al-Qaeda.

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

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.

The air raids came as the Shiite rebels, mostly stationing on the entrances of Taiz, intensively shelled several neighborhoods in the city, apparently targeting their Saudi-backed foes loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

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.

Ahmed said that all political parties in Yemen should come to an agreement.

Yemen’s al-Qaida branch has exploited the chaos in this embattled country to capture three towns near the southern port city of Aden where pro-government forces have been advancing against Shiite rebels in recent weeks, officials said Thursday.

The seizure of Al Anad military base, once the hub of a U.S. drone war against Al Qaeda’s potent Yemen branch, would mark a significant gain for the Saudi Arabian-backed troops fighting to reclaim large tracts of territory from Shiite Muslim rebels known as Houthis.

Despite losing Aden, the rebels still control large swathes of Yemen, including Sanaa which they overran last September.

Asseri, whose side has been conducting air raids on Houthis since March 26, said the first task was to secure Aden so the government could operate from there for the moment. The coalition also struck upper of the port-city of Aden.

Ground fighting erupted in multiple provinces within minutes of the start of the unilateral ceasefire late Sunday.

The wreckage of a auto is seen at the site of a vehicle bomb attack near a Shiite mosque on the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on July 20, 2015.