Yemen

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels shelled a residential neighborhood on Saturday, killing at least three children from the same family, a government official said. It was the latest attack by the Iranian-backed Houthis to leave civilian casualties.

Moammar al-Iryani, information minister of the internationally recognized government, said the Houthis fired a shell on the Camp neighborhood on the outskirts of the government-held city of Taiz.

He said at least six others were wounded, and posted graphic images showing wounded children.

ADEN, Oct 25 (NNN-YPA) – Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition, yesterday continued bombing various sites controlled by the Houthi rebels in Yemen’s oil-rich province of Marib.

“The Houthi-held sites in Marib were heavily struck by the Saudi-led coalition warplanes, that succeeded in slowing down the rebels’ progress towards the strategic city,” the local military source said.

“The rebels partially ceased their advance on the ground, because of the heavy aerial bombardment that killed hundreds of them during the past days,” he added.

ADEN, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday it has seized new territory in the energy-rich provinces of Shabwa and Marib, gains confirmed by sources, as it presses an offensive likely to further complicate international peace efforts.

Military spokesman Yahia Sarea said Houthi forces, who are battling a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, had taken three districts in Shabwa in southern Yemen and two more in Marib, the Saudi-backed government's last northern stronghold.

ADEN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A car bomb targeting the governor's convoy shook Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Sunday killing at least six people and wounding seven, the information minister said on Twitter.

Governor Ahmed Lamlas and agriculture minister Salem al-Suqatri, both members of a southern separatist group, survived a "terrorist assassination attempt", the state news agency said.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Clashes between Yemeni separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates and a rival splinter group in the southern port city of Aden killed at least 10 people including four civilians Saturday, security officials said.

The fighting has taken place in Aden’s residential neighborhood of Crater, where the presidential palace and other government buildings are located, they said. It pits forces of the secessionist Southern Transitional Council against an armed religious group that was once part of the council, according to the officials.

ADEN, Sept 27 (NNN-YPA) – Heavy fighting struck various areas of Yemen’s oil-rich northern province of Marib yesterday, amid intensified airstrikes, a military official said.

“More than 28 members of the Houthi rebel group and 16 soldiers of the pro-government Yemeni forces were killed, during the past 24 hours, in Marib’s fighting,” the local military source said.

The Houthi fighters carried out simultaneous attacks against several positions controlled by the pro-government forces, in the southern and north-western areas of Marib, he said.

SANAA, Sept 26 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s Houthi militia, yesterday, captured new areas in southern Marib province, in central Yemen, after fierce fighting with government troops, a military source said.

“Houthi militia advanced from Harib district and captured this morning (yesterday), the Mal’aa hilltops, the adjacent valley of Om Reash and part of the main highway in the area, which leads to Al-Jubah district, and the province’s capital, Marib city,” a government military source in the city said.

ADEN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The European Union joined a chorus of international criticism on Monday over the execution of nine men by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen following their conviction for involvement in the killing of the group's top civilian leader.

Saleh al-Samad, who held the post of president in the Houthi-controlled administration which runs most of northern Yemen, was killed in April 2018 by a Saudi-led coalition air strike in the port city of Hodeidah on Yemen's west coast.

ADEN, Sept 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Yemen’s government said that it had complained to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over the Houthi attack on the Mocha port, a newly refurbished commercial seaport in the country’s southwestern part.

According to a statement released by the state-run Saba News Agency, the government raised its concerns to the UNSC regarding the recent Houthi shelling of Mocha port with four missiles and three explosive-laden drones.

HAJJAH, Sept 15 (Reuters) - In the poor village of Jarb in northern Yemen, Ashwaq Mahmoud gives her time and spare cash to provide basic health services that people there could not otherwise reach or afford.

The 23-year-old Mahmoud was trained by the United Nations children's agency UNICEF as a community health worker after a village elder noticed her helping displaced people fleeing the frontlines of Yemen's war.

She now offers basic treatments and maternal health, malnutrition and vaccine advice.