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40 dead in clashes around key city of* Yemen
ADEN: Forty people were killed in fighting between Huthi rebels and pro-government forces around southwest Yemen’s main city of Taez, military sources said on Thursday.
Colonel Sadeq al-Hassani, spokesman for the loyalist forces, told AFP that 27 Huthis and 13 pro-government fighters were killed as a rebel offensive aimed at reimposing a siege of the city was repelled on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, five Huthis and allied rebels were killed when loyalists backed by Saudi-led Arab coalition air strikes and artillery fought off a rebel assault in the nearby Kahbub area, pro-government officials said. AFP could **t independently verify the tolls and the rebels rarely ack**wledge their losses. The Kahbub fighting centred on a mountai**us area overlooking the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait at the entrance to the Red Sea. The area is guarded by forces from the coalition, which intervened in Yemen in March 2015 to support President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s government after rebels seized the capital Sanaa. Yemen’s conflict has since killed more than 6,600 people, most of them civilians, and displaced at least three million others, according to the United Nations. Fighting has intensified since the collapse in early August of UN-mediated peace talks held in Kuwait. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies launched a military campaign in Yemen in March last year to support the exiled government of Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and have declared the country´s airspace a “restricted zone”. Peace talks foundered after the Houthis and the GPC an**unced the formation of a 10-member governing council on Aug 6, ig**ring a UN warning that such a move would violate UN Security Council resolutions on how to solve the conflict. أكثر... ??????? ??????: 40 dead in clashes around key city of* Yemen || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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