| Submit your comments on this article |
| Arabia |
| Saudi-led strikes hit Yemen rebels |
| 2015-07-13 |
| [SKYNEWS.AU] Saudi-led coalition warplanes have bombarded Yemeni rebels, witnesses say, in a new blow to a UN-proposed truce in the impoverished country where millions are threatened with famine. Air strikes hit the Shi'ite Huthi stronghold of Saada in Yemen's north on Sunday, as well as other rebel positions south of the capital Sanaa and in the southern province of restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement , residents said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Clashes also raged in the southern port city of Aden between the rebels and fighters allied with exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Resistance. The southern fighters managed to push back the rebels in the coastal Ras Amran area, west of Aden, according to General Fadhel Hasan, a front man of the Popular Resistance. 'We have seized control of the area that represents the western entry into Aden,' he said, adding that the group 'received sophisticated weapons from the coalition.' But the rebels prevented a convoy of desperately needed relief aid travelling from the western port city of Hodeida to enter Aden, said local relief activist Adnan al-Kaf. Clashes also persisted in the central city of Taez and in the southern Shabwa province, where the Popular Resistance said 21 of its fighters were killed in three days of festivities. The UN-proposed humanitarian truce ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truceis not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefiredoesn't mean you have to stop shooting... technically went into effect on Friday night and is supposed to run until July 17, the last day of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan. |
| Posted by:Fred |