Yemeni pro-government forces are battling to oust Iran-backed rebels from a southern province where they have made gains in recent weeks. Ground fighting and airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition kill 12 rebels in Daleh province, military sources say. Four loyalists are also killed.
Daleh is one of five southern provinces which the coalition-backed loyalists retook from the rebels in a July offensive.
But the Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies managed to recapture the province’s second-largest city, Damt, earlier this month.
Further north, in Yemen’s third city Taez, where a loyalist garrison has been under rebel siege for months, three civilians were killed and at least 20 wounded by rebel mortar fire late on Saturday, medical and military sources say.
Loyalist troops and their coalition backers launch an offensive to try to break the siege earlier this month but it has made little headway.
— AFP
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