CAIRO – Yemen has been engulfed in an armed conflict between thegovernment forces led by President Hadi, and the rebel Houthi movement forseveral years now. The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikesagainst the Houthis at Hadi’s request since March 2015. The conflict hasresulted in a massive humanitarian crisis.
The Houthi rebel movement, also known as Ansar Allah, launched an attack onthe Yemeni and Saudi forces and gained control over the government forces’positions in Yemen’s Saada governorate, which borders Saudi Arabia, a localmilitary source said on Friday.
“The Ansar Allah movement launched a large-scale attack on the Yemeni andSaudi forces in Al Malahez area of Al Dhaher District, southwest of Saadagovernorate,” the source said, stressing that during the military operationthe Houthis managed to gain control over seven important locations.
According to the source, the Houthi movement took control of the road,which links the Saada’s Al Malahez and Harad districts of the northwesternprovince of Hajjah.
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The clashes resulted in causalities among the Yemeni government troops andthe Houthis, who managed to capture several Saudi-led coalition fighters.
Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, hasbeen fighting the Houthi movement for over four years nowlinkina war that has left more than a half of the 28 million population in needof humanitarian aid, Sputnik has reported.
