UN urges Houthis to return to Yemen peace talks
Sources report offensive is a bloodbath but that most of the casualties are fighters and not civilians
22 February 2021 - 17:14
Aden — Hundreds of fighters have been killed in a weeks-long Houthi offensive on the Yemeni region of Marib, military sources and a local official said on Monday, in the conflict’s most deadly clashes since 2018.
The attack by Iran-aligned Houthi forces on government-held Marib city comes amid renewed diplomacy to end the six-year war, and as the US said it would end support for a Saudi-led coalition backing the internationally recognised Yemeni government...
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