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The witnesses said the coalition warplanes pounded positions of the Houthi rebels and bases of splinter troops loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

According to Bahrain, reportedly in the same blast, five of its troops had lost their lives on Friday.

War-torn Yemen is on the brink of famine, with millions of women and children most at risk of starvation as fighting around major ports stalls imports of food and other humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations.

An average of eight children are killed or maimed every day in Yemen as a direct result of the conflict that has gripping the country since April. A wave of airstrikes that began Thursday and continued Friday has killed more than 60 people, Yemen’s Houthi-run Health...

In the latest escalation of Yemen’s five- month war, Houthi rebels said they’ve fired a Scud missile into Saudi Arabia while a Saudi official acknowledged sending forces into northern Yemen in a bid to stop border attacks.

The UAE said Semple was freed during a military intelligence operation and taken to Aden before being flown by UAE military aircraft to Abu Dhabi.

The claim was backed up by an independent news site, Aden al-Ghad, which blamed al Qaeda-linked insurgents for Saturday’s explosion.

There was no immediate comment from the Saudi-led coalition. The governor and other officials who were present at the time were not hurt in the apparent assassination attempt.

In a report released Tuesday, August 18, 2015, Amnesty worldwide says all sides fighting in Yemen have left a “trail of civilian death and destruction” in the conflict, killing scores of innocent people in what could amount to war crimes.

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”.

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.

“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”.