Twenty-three Houthi rebels killed in Yemen

Yemeni army on Friday announced that 23 Houthi rebels were killed during the military operations in the country.

Col. Abdallah al-Ashraf, the spokesman of Yemen’s 6th military legion, told Anadolu Agency that the rebels were killed in al-Maslub district of Yemen’s al-Jawf governorate.

According to the officials, more than 80 percent of the al-Jawf governorate has been under control of the regime forces.

Impoverished Yemen has remained wracked by violence since 2014, when Shia Houthi rebels overran much of the country, including Sanaa.

The conflict escalated in 2015 when Saudi Arabia and its Sunni-Arab allies launched a massive air campaign in Yemen aimed at rolling back Houthi gains.

The violence has devastated Yemen’s infrastructure, including health and sanitation systems, prompting the UN to describe the situation as “one of the worst humanitarian disasters of modern times”.