Yemen capital Sanaa hit by auto bomb attack
The bombing targeted a pair of brothers, both chiefs in the Houthi forces, who were gathering to mourn a relative slain recently in the fighting.
Huthi rebels closed down the area surrounding the city centre after the attack, allowing only emergency services to help evacuate the victims, witnesses said.
SANAA, Yemen (AP) A Yemeni security official says some 1,200 inmates fled a prison in a southwestern city after guards deserted their posts amid fierce fighting between Shiite rebels and their opponents.
Yemen was previously the preserve of ISIS’ militant rival Al-Qaeda, which controls swaths of the south and east, but since March the group has claimed a string of high-profile attacks.
Neither peace talks in Geneva or a Saudi-led air campaign begun in March have driven them from power and they remain locked in battle with pro-government fighters, Sunni tribesmen and southern separatists.
“Saada City’s streets are littered with bomb craters, destroyed buildings, and other evidence of coalition airstrikes”, HRW’s Sarah Leah Whitson said in the report.
Houthi fighters fired artillery into Saudi Arabia on Thursday, killing three Saudi soldiers and one from the United Arab Emirates, a member of the coalition.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Houthi rebels launched a Scud missile at a missile base in Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s state news agency reported.
He affirmed that the launching of this missile is another message to the aggression states so as to understand the lesson or otherwise we have many such surprises in the days to come.
The Human Rights Watch report investigated a dozen airstrikes between April 6 and May 11 that killed 59 people – 14 women and 35 children.
ADEN: Fire erupted at Aden’s oil refinery Saturday when rebels shelled the nearby port to prevent a Qatari ship carrying aid for Yemen’s devastated second city from docking, officials told AFP.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s office on Monday called for an investigation into a Saudi Arabian-led coalition air strike on a United Nations compound in Yemen. They regard the Houthis as apostates worthy of death, and the overnight blast was the latest in a series of attacks on the group and their supporters.
Human Rights Watch said under the laws of war applicable to the Yemen conflict, civilians and “civilian objects” such as markets and schools may never be deliberate targets of attack ” and attacks that fail to discriminate between civilians and combatants or that cause disproportionate civilian harm are prohibited.