Sana'a: Pro-government forces yesterday recaptured two military sites in Sana'a’s eastern Nahm directorate from Shia Houthi militiamen and their allies, according to assertions by the Yemeni army.
"Our forces advanced on Nahm where they liberated the village of Sarhan and the Mount Qarn Wadaa region," the army said in a statement posted on its official Facebook page.
"The Saudi-led coalition also conducted two air strikes on Houthi targets, destroying three Houthi vehicles," the statement read without providing a death toll.
"A second air strike by coalition aircraft destroyed several more vehicles and Houthi equipment," it added without elaborating.
The Houthi leadership and allied forces of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh have yet to issue a comment on the army’s claims. Yemen has been wracked by chaos since late 2014, when the Houthis and their allies overran capital Sana'a and other parts of the country. The conflict escalated in mid-2015 when Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a major air campaign aimed at reversing Houthi military gains and shoring up Yemen’s embattled Saudi-backed government.
Two rounds of UN-backed peace talks have failed to resolve the
conflict.
