Local Editor
At least 55 people, including 14 civilians, have been killed in two days of fighting between Hadi loyalists and Houthi revolutionaries in Yemen, officials said Monday.
The clashes came as UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed was in the capital Sana’a for meetings with the Houthi Ansarullah movement aimed at restarting peace talks with the exiled Yemeni government.
Since yesterday, fighting has raged in the outskirts of the third city Taez as revolutionaries tried to retake positions lost in recent weeks to loyalists, military sources said.
Taez lies between Sana’a and the port city of Aden - the base of the regime of fugitive former President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
On another front, six pro-Hadi fighters and seven revolutionaries were killed yesterday in clashes in the southern province of Shabwa.
In the neighboring province of Marib, three Hadi loyalists were killed in the fighting.
As well as the 55 dead in fighting between Hadi militias and Houthi revolutionaries, two loyalists were killed late yesterday in an ambush that targeted a convoy heading from Taez to Aden, a military source said, accusing the ISIS group of being behind the attack.
ISIS and Al-Qaeda militants have gained ground in southern Yemen since the coalition launched air strikes in the country in March last year.
