Yemeni Army forces backed by Houthi rebels shot down a Saudi warplane in the northern province of Sadaa, the official Saba news agency reported on Thursday.
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UN Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has been in Saudi Arabia for discussions with President Hadi and other senior Yemeni officials over the talks. Highly-trained assault teams rush to board any boats to inspect them for suspicious cargo and passengers. The Houthis, on the other hand, have laid siege on the city of Taiz, as they’d done before in Aden, blocking drinking water, food and medicine from reaching the city as reported byMuwatana Organization for Human Rights (Mwatana).
The Saudi-led coalition has carried out military operations, including airstrikes on a daily basis, against Houthis since late March across Yemen in an effort to restore Hadi’s authority.
Yemeni security officials said the troops are the first wave of an expected 10,000 reinforcements for the Saudi-led coalition who are fighting the country’s Shi’ite Houthi rebels. Al Qaeda and Islamic State have both gained ground in Yemen, where a war has been raging for the past seven months between a Saudi-led military coalition and Houthi militiamen allied to Iran.
As Sudan moved closer to Saudi Arabia over the past year or so, its traditional ties with Iran weakened.
According to the plan, Saleh’s General People’s Congress Party would accept UN Security Council Resolution 2216 under an “implementation mechanism that would be agreed on by all parties” in Yemen, the party said.
The UAE-based pro-government newspapers al-Khaleej and al-Bayan strongly commended the arrival of Sudanese troops in their Sunday editorials saying it enforces Arab unity and promises to put Yemen on the path to stability.
Hadi supporters, backed by Arab forces, recently made a few gains in the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait and in Marib, a province east of Sanaa and home to much of Yemen’s oil wealth.
Another “friendly fire” incident on Saturday killed at least 20 Hadis and wounded a similar number when air strikes hit an encampment in Southern Taiz province.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media while witnesses declined to give their names for fear of reprisals.
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Saudi Arabian fighter jets have mistakenly targeted a camp of pro-Riyadh militants in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 and injuring dozens more.
