Local Editor

The death toll from the latest US-led Saudi airstrikes on Yemen’s provinces of al-Jawf and Ta’izz has risen to 35, as official figures show.

The US-led Saudi attacks on al-Jawf and Ta’izz had killed 18 people and wounded dozens more in al-Hazm, the capital of the northern province of al-Jawf in Yemen on Sunday, according to official figures. 

The US-led Saudi warplanes also targeted residential areas south of the Yemeni southwestern province of Ta’izz, killing 17 people, including five women.

The deadly attacks were carried out after Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionaries, backed by allied armed forces, managed to cleanse al-Hazm city of al-Qaeda militants.

Reports say that Yemeni forces have regained control of all military bases and governmental offices in al-Hazm.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate- in an attempt to undermine the Houthi revolutionaries and bring former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia, back to power.

According to the World Health Organisation [WHO], approximately 2,600 people have been killed and thousands more injured due to the conflict in Yemen since March 19.

Saudi Arabia says its airstrikes target the positions of the Houthi movement while civilians make up most of the casualties.