Yemen:  More or less seven members of the Houthi militia were killed in an airstrike launched by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's southwestern province of Taiz, a local military source declared.

According to the source, "warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition bombed a convoy of the Houthi rebel militia while it was travelling in the western parts of Taiz." The airstrike in Taiz's Maqbanah district destroyed two rebel vehicles and killed seven of its members. The Saudi-led coalition has yet to comment, despite recently increasing airstrikes on various Houthi-held sites across the war-torn Arab country.

Yemen has been embroiled in a civil war since late 2014, when the Houthi militia seized control of several northern provinces and drove President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's internationally recognised government from the capital, Sanaa. In March 2015, a Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened in Yemen to support Hadi's government.

Last week, during clashes between Yemeni government forces and Houthi rebels invading the central city of Marib, senior military commander Major General Nasser al-Zubiani was killed on the front line in the Balaq mountain range, south of Marib. Al-Zubiani was inspecting government soldiers and tribal fighters attempting to repel a Houthi invasion at the time.

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