Saudi-led Warplanes Hit Yemen’s Aden as Peace Talks Fail
Local Editor
Saudi-led warplanes launched dawn raid inYemen’s southern port city of Aden, the military said on Saturday, hours after UN-backed peace talks in Switzerland’s Geneva ended without agreement.
At least 15 air strikes rocked the northern, eastern and western approaches to Aden in Yemen.
The violence came hours after the UN’s special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced a day earlier in Geneva that talks between the warring sides ended without agreement.
The situation is particularly tragic in Aden, where residents have complained of food and water shortages, while medics speak of a rapidly deteriorating health situation and the spread of disease.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began carrying out airstrikes against Yemen in late March.
The US-led Saudi aggression has killed more than 2,000 civilians, displaced more than a million and led to severe shortages of food, water, fuel and electricity.
