The struggle is part of coalition efforts since March a year ago to roll back Houthi gains and restore Hadi, who is now in Saudi Arabia, to power.
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The Houthi-run news agency Sabanews, reported that rebels had killed 27 combatants loyal to Hadi.
The Houthis and troops loyal to their ally, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, remain entrenched in much of the northern half of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.
Jubeir said Saudi Arabia believed a political settlement that would ensure the Houthis abided by common understandings reached before the Houthi capture of Sanaa would pave the way to a solution.
Clashes intensified on Friday between Shiite rebels and local fighters in the besieged city of Taiz, killing at least 45 fighters on both sides and six civilians over the past 24 hours.
At least 17 suspected Al-Qaeda members and two policemen have been killed in two days of clashes in Yemen’s Aden, the southern city serving as the government’s temporary base, security sources said Sunday.
Aden’s Governor Maj. Gen. Aidarous Zubaidi issued an official statement saying that “pro-government forces supported by Saudi-led coalition carried out the second phase to implement the security plan and raided al-Qaida terror cells in Mansourah”.
According to Aden residents, fighter jets heavily hovered over the sky, breaking sound barriers while fierce fighting is still going on with loud explosions ranging out in Mansourah.
Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have taken advantage of the conflict between the Huthi insurgents and pro-government forces to reinforce their presence in the south, including in Aden.
The attacks come a day after forces loyal to Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi broke a siege by the Houthis around Taiz, the country’s third biggest city, about 200km northwest of Aden.
Al Asbahi said the national army and popular resistance fighters are aware that their victory in the moral front “is more important than any military achievement on the ground”, and Taiz, which has resisted the fatal siege that lasted more than nine months would not seek any criminal reprisals against the coup militia that became professional murderers of civilians, and imposed the blockade on them.
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Loyalists last summer retook five southern provinces including Aden and have for months been fighting to win back Taez.
