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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.

The WFP had sent aid ahead of the truce to the rebel-controlled port of Hodeidah in western Yemen, but the insurgents did not allow an aid convoy to travel to Aden. The ship had initially reached the city on June 26 but was diverted from the port until it had a safe place to...

Human Rights Watch condemned as an “apparent war crime” on Tuesday a Saudi-led air raid in Yemen last week that it said killed at least 65 civilians in residential compounds.

Impoverished Yemen has been rocked by months of fighting between Huthi Shiite rebels and Hadi loyalists, supported by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, leaving thousands dead and many needing urgent aid.

Aden was recently liberated from Houthi control by the Popular Resistance and last week members of Yemen’s government-in-exile began returning to the city in order to set up a rival power base to the Houthis’ in the capital Sana’a, which the group has controlled...

Despite being forced to step down in 2012 under a Gulf-brokered transition plan following mass protests against his decades of rule, Mr Saleh has remained a powerful political player operating behind the scenes, enjoying immunity under the deal.

While repair work was going to be carried out to fix damage done to the airport during fighting in the past few months, the airport’s staff was expected preparing to receive daily aid-carrying aircraft starting soon, he explained.

It’s the fifth vehicle bomb attack against the Shiite Houthi group since June in Sanaa by the ISIS.

The coalition said it has not received a formal request from Hadi’s government to observe a truce, while the rebels said before the ceasefire went into effect they had little hope it would succeed.

One of the bases reportedly retaken from the rebels was the Labuza army base in Lahj province, north of Aden, and the other was the headquarters of the 117th armored division in eastern Shabwa province some 230 kilometers (145 miles) away.

Saudi-owned al Arabiya TV claimed the Houthis, who control Sanaa, have put their forces in the city on alert.

Loyalists of Yemen’s exiled president seized more ground in second city Aden on Wednesday as they pressed their biggest fightback yet against Iran-backed rebels buoyed by their recapture of the airport.

In recent days, the pro-government forces were provided with heavy weapons by the Saudi-led coalition that have enabled them to make progress against the Houthis, they added.

Saudi fighter jets pounded a police station in Al-Radhma district in the southwestern Yemeni province of Ibb after the truce came into force early Saturday, Yemen’s Saba Net news agency reported.