Yemen: Conflict Between Former Rebel Allies Is Intensifying

Reuters: Houthis blow up ex-president Saleh's house, death toll soars in Sanaa fighting

Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed Houthi positions in for a second day in support of Saleh, a former Houthi ally who has now renounced his alliance with the heavily armed militia in the multi-sided war shattering the Arabian Peninsula country.

The Saudi-led air campaign, backed by U.S. and other Western arms and intelligence, has killed hundreds of civilians but has failed to secure the coalition any major gains in the nearly three-year-old campaign to restore Yemen’s internationally recognized president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, to power.

Sanaa residents said Houthi fighters blew up Saleh’s house in the center of the city. His whereabouts remain unknown.

Saleh’s loyalists have lost ground on the sixth day of heavy urban combat with the Houthis, with three hospitals reporting a toll of at least 125 killed and 238 wounded over six days, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

said.

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