Air strikes kill ‘186 rebels’
The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen yesterday said that its air strikes over the previous 24 hours killed 186 Huthi fighters in the battleground provinces of Marib and Al-Bayda.
The Saudi-led coalition has been reporting high death tolls in almost daily strikes since October aimed at repelling a rebel offensive on the city of Marib, the government's last stronghold in the north.
The Iran-backed Huthis rarely comment on the tolls, which have exceeded 3,000 in total. AFP cannot independently verify the coalition's figures.
A coalition statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said that the latest strikes had focused on the front line west of Marib.
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