Yemen update 5/09/2016..Ansarullah sees no prospect for Yemeni peace talks
Latest Saudi bombardments in Yemen cast doubt on Kuwait talks
Ansarullah sees no prospect for Yemeni peace talks
6 killed by artillery in Yemen’s Taiz despite ceasefire
TAIZ, Yemen
Six people were killed on Monday by artillery — fired both by forces loyal to Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and by the Shia Houthi militant group and its allies — in Yemen’s southwestern Taiz province.
In an online statement, Colonel Mansour al-Hassani, an army spokesman in Taiz, said the Houthis and allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh had violated a ceasefire agreement by firing artillery at military targets in Taiz, killing at least one soldier.
Al-Hassani added that the army and pro-Hadi “popular resistance” forces had retaliated with their own artillery barrage, killing five Houthi fighters.
Ongoing UN-backed peace talks in Kuwait stalled on Saturday, with UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed suspending direct talks between Yemeni government and Houthi representatives.
Yemen has been racked by chaos and bloodshed since late 2014, when the Houthis and their allies overran capital Sanaa and other parts of the country, forcing Hadi and his Saudi-backed government to temporarily flee to Riyadh.
In March of last year, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive military campaign in Yemen aimed at reversing Houthi gains and restoring Hadi’s embattled government.
According to UN figures, the ongoing conflict has led to the death of some 6,400 Yemenis to date and forced some 2.5 million to flee their homes.
Airstrikes by Saudi-Led Coalition in Yemen Kill 10
Security officials and eyewitnesses said Monday that at least 10 Yemeni rebels were killed in airstrikes by the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed coalition.
They said air raids hit a military camp in Amran province, also wounding more than 15 others. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, while the witnesses did so for fear of their safety.
Also Monday, the Saudi-led coalition said Saudi forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired across the border from Yemen. The statement said the missile and its launch pad were destroyed before it could cause any damage. Saudi forces frequently fire across the Saudi border into Yemen at rebels, and missiles fired by the rebels into Saudi Arabia have killed civilians in the past.
The fighting continues despite the fact that Yemen’s warring sides are taking part in indirect U.N.-led peace talks in Kuwait. The war has killed more than 6,200 civilians, displaced millions and pushed the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink of famine.
The conflict pits the Yemeni government, backed by the coalition, against Shiite rebels allied with forces loyal to the country’s former president. The rebels took over the capital, Sanaa, in September 2014, and the coalition began airstrikes against them in March 2015.
The U.S. military is also helping Yemeni, Emirati and other Arab coalition forces in their fight against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the group’s affiliate in Yemen.
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