Local Editor

The UN envoy to Yemen said on Thursday that an agreement on a humanitarian cease-fire is expected to be announced within 24 hours.

The truce would come over 100 days after Saudi Arabia began to launch deadly air strikes against Yemen.

A Saudi-led coalition, backed by the United States, has been carrying out airstrikes against Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

According to UN records, the Saudi attacks have killed more than 2,600 people and injured at least 11,000 since the military aggression began against Yemen on March 26.

The US-led Saudi military aggression began in an attempt to bring the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia, back to power, and to weaken the Houthi Ansarullah movement which is currently responding to the Saudi attacks on the country.