Coalition jets shell Houthis sites in Taiz

The Yemeni forces managed to shot down unmanned reconnaissance aircraft belonging to the Houthi and Saleh militias on the eastern front of the city of Taiz. A source in the popular resistance said that men from the army and the Popular Resistance were able to drop a reconnaissance aircraft, equipped with a camera in the vicinity of the Mosque of Al-Hussein in Jabal al-Shamasi overlooking the presidential palace and central security east of Taiz.

The Arab coalition fighters launched, Thursday evening, two raids targeting the positions of Houthis north-west of Taiz, in conjunction with the continuation of confrontations since dawn. "An air strike targeting coalition fighters targeted a tank of militia in the outskirts of Tuba al-Qara` towards the north-west of Taiz," the media center said.

The media center for the leadership of the Taiz military axis, said on his Facebook page that the government forces took over many strategic sites in the city, while sources in the Houthi group denied the news and spoke of repelling the attack.

In the early hours of Thursday morning, legitimate forces succeeded in carrying out a sweeping attack on militia positions in the central province of Taiz. According to local sources, members of the National Army launched at dawn today an attack on the positions of the militia coup north of the air defense camp.

Violent clashes took place, on Thursday, between the National Army forces backed by the alliance, and the Houthi group on the other hand, in Midi border in the Hajjah north-west of Yemen. The sources confirmed to Arabs Today that the Arab coalition jets launched dozens of air raids on the positions of Houthis in Midi as the army continues to support the popular resistance field's progress towards the city. Sources added that the army artillery bombed the positions of the armed group in the coastal city in conjunction with intensive air strikes, pointing out that the fighting left scores of dead and wounded, mostly from the Houthi group, while the army took over heavy weapons and ammunition.

In Riyadh, adviser to the Saudi Defense Minister, Major General Ahmad Asiri, criticized on Thursday the United Nations' insistence on the continued control of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah by the militias, as a symbol of humanitarian action. "The United Nations is reducing the humanitarian situation in Yemen in the port of Hodeidah and this is harming the Yemeni people," he told Sky News.