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Saudi Arabian warplanes bombed residential buildings in the southwestern Yemeni province of Taiz, claiming the lives of at least 10 people.
The Saturday attacks targeted the province’s As Silw district, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported.
Early reports stated that at least three women were among those killed.
Saudi aircraft also targeted the Nihm district in Sana’a Province in west-central Yemen and another location in Shabwah Province in the impoverished country’s south.
Separately, a blast was reported at a checkpoint located near the Central Bank in the Craiter District in the southwestern Yemeni province of Aden, leaving at least three people dead. The details of the attack are yet to be announced.
Saudi Arabia has been waging a brutal war against Yemen since March 2015. The war was launched in an unsuccessful attempt to reinstate Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who has resigned as Yemen’s president.
The war claimed the lives of at least 10,000 people, amid countless reports suggesting the deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilian infrastructure by Saudi forces and mercenaries.
A Saudi-imposed naval embargo of the Arab world’s poorest nation has, meanwhile, led to a famine across much of Yemen.
The Middle East Eye news portal reported on Thursday that Saudi Arabian and Qatari army chiefs had met with their Algerian counterpart earlier in the month, asking Algiers to send its servicemen to Yemen. Riyadh had previously tried and failed to recruit Pakistan and Lebanon in the offensive.
Some observers said the war has cost Saudi Arabia so much in terms of financial and political capital that it seeks to diminish its own role while enlisting the services of allies to gradually fill in its shoes.
Riyadh has already been hit by a worsening economic crisis due to a sharp fall in oil prices, itself a result of the policies of the Saudi regime.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
