Yemeni security forces stands guard during a gathering in support of the Huthi-led parliament, in the capital Sanaa on August 20, 2016.
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Yemeni Houthi rebels have declared their readiness to resume peace talks with the government if all the hostilities in the country are terminated, local media reported on Sunday.
In talks in Jeddah this week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the conflict in which Saudi Arabia has launched thousands of air strikes in favour of the exiled government had gone on too long and needed to end.
The UN-sponsored peace talks to end 18 months of fighting in Yemen collapsed this month in host Kuwait.
A Saudi child was killed and four people were injured Saturday by a military projectile fired from war-torn Yemen into southern Saudi Arabia.
In March of a year ago, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive military campaign in Yemen aimed at reversing Houthi military gains and restoring Hadi’s embattled government.
The Saudi military has been pounding Yemen since March past year to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and to restore power to the former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.
Shiite Houthis backed by forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh seized control of Sanaa in 2014 and drove out Hadi and his government into exile in Riyadh, the capital of Sunni Saudi Arabia.
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On Thursday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein said the Saudi military was using cluster bombs against residential areas in Yemen in violation of worldwide law, blaming the Riyadh regime for most of the civilian casualties in its impoverished southern neighbor.
