Saudi-led coalition hits Yemen rebel camp
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen yesterday said it struck a Huthi rebel camp in the capital Sanaa, as it intensified an aerial bombing campaign against the Iran-backed insurgents. The coalition, which backs Yemen's internationally recognised government against the Huthis in a civil war, said it destroyed weapons storehouses in the rebel-held capital, according to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Yemen has been wracked by civil war since 2014 pitting the government against the Huthis who control much of the north. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, in what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The coalition launched a "large-scale" military operation against the Huthis on Saturday, the Saudi authorities said, after missiles fired by the rebels killed two people in the kingdom, the first such deaths in three years.
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