Yemeni forces seize Houthi positions on Aden outskirts-local officials

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.

Asseri said the coalition welcomed investigators to Yemen to look into rights abuses by any side in the four-month-old war.

The New York-based body says that around 21 million people, 80 percent of the population, are in need of assistance and among them 13 million are food insecure.

A Saudi-led coalition carrying out air strikes in Yemen may have committed a war crime when it bombed two residential compounds, killing 65 people including 10 children, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.

The Saudi-led coalition on Saturday announced a unilateral truce that came into effect at the request of Hadi.

The violence prolongs a conflict rooted in political strainsthat spread across the Arabian Peninsula country last year, whenthe Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and pushed aside PresidentAbd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a US ally, who fled to Saudi Arabia.

The truce was intended to pause months of fighting and allow for the dispersing of much-needed humanitarian aid.

An attack by an unmanned aircraft on a auto in southern Yemen overnight killed four suspected al Qaeda militants, residents and local officials said on Thursday.

The United States has approved a $500 million sale of munitions for Saudi Arabia to replenish the depleted supplies from its ongoing military campaign in Yemen, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a statement.

However, the airstrikes quickly resumed after the Houthis broke the terms of the truce and continued military action and targeting civilians throughout the country as the ceasefire began.

According to the United Nations, the war has killed 3,984 people, almost half of them civilians.

Recently, Amnesty global has also argued that airstrikes carried out by Saudi Arabia-led forces demonstrated a failure to abide by the requirements of worldwide humanitarian law.

SANAA/Cennet Yemen’s Houthi people admitted on treating across Yemen on Monday despite a ceasefire mind by the Saudi-led foes, and news on the hook the Iran-allied excersise established that in fact its powers had shelled impacts on inside Saudi Arabia.

In an effort to earn hard currency in a struggling economy, North Korea has reportedly sold missiles to nations in the Middle East – such as Iran, Syria and Pakistan, and allegedly to Hamas, which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization. They want to replace Mr Hadi, whose government they say is corrupt.

“We believe the report was designed to accuse the coalition without seeing what the others do and without hearing our view”, Asseri said, adding Houthi rocket fire was to blame.

The officials said five pro-government fighters were killed and 15 wounded in the battle.