2023-08-27 15:47:51
Despite a lull for more than a year in the civil war in Yemen, ten soldiers from government forces, backed by Saudi Arabia’s coalition, were killed and 12 others injured on Sunday by Houthi rebels during a ” surprise attack”.
According to military sources, this attack targeted a site of separatist forces in the south, allied with the government against the Houthis and supported by the United Arab Emirates, another key player in the Saudi military coalition. The clashes also left four dead in the Houthi camp, as well as several injured, the sources said. The rebels, who very rarely communicate on their losses, did not make an announcement.
Truce expires
The recent rapprochement between Saudi Arabia, which supports the Yemeni government, and Iran, close to the rebels, has raised hopes of appeasement, but peace negotiations remain deadlocked in this country on the Arabian Peninsula plunged into one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
A UN-brokered truce that came into effect in April 2022 has offered some respite to a population of 30 million, more than three-quarters of whom depend on humanitarian aid. Officially expired last October, the truce has held relatively since and talks between the rebels and Riyadh have even taken place, but still without major progress.
In recent months, southern Yemen has been rocked by violence, involving in particular the jihadist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqpa), also targeting separatists supported by Abu Dhabi.
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