Yemeni forces kill 40 Houthi fighters in ambush
Yemeni forces kill 40 Houthi fighters in ambush
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SANAA: Forces loyal to the Yemen government announced the killing of forty Houthi fighters during an ambush in the country's northeastern oil-rich province of Marib. “The army units backed by local tribesmen set up a well-planned ambush and targeted the Houthi militia near Jubah district in southern Marib," the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the Houthis-affiliated Masirah television network reported that the Saudi-led coalition carried out at least 39 airstrikes on areas of Marib during the past hours. The Iran-backed Houthi militia initiated in February a major offensive on Marib in an attempt to capture control of the oil-rich province, the last northern stronghold of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government.

Yemen has been mired in a civil war since September 2014 when the Houthi militia forced the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi out of the capital Sanaa.

The Houthi insurgency in Yemen, also known as the Houthi rebellion, was a military rebellion pitting Zaidi Shia Houthis against the Yemeni military that began in Northern Yemen and has since escalated into a full-scale civil war.

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