According To Iran News, Yemeni armed forces have edged closer to liberating the central province of Ma’rib after taking control of the neighboring strategic province of al-Jawf, which borders Saudi Arabia, local sources said.

Yemeni troops on Monday continued their ground advancements in Ma’rib as the sources reported heavy clashes between Emirati-backed southern separatists and Saudi-led mercenaries, the Lebanese al-Mayadeen television channel said.

The sources added that this came after Houthi forces managed to recapture al-Labanat military base from Saudi-led coalition forces in Jawf.

Yemeni forces seized al-Hazm, the capital city of the neighboring al-Jawf province in early March.

Months of bloody infighting broke out between the two groups last summer, resulting in heavy casualties for both sides before a power-sharing settlement was signed in November.

The new round of clashes comes after UAE-backed separatists announced that they had pulled out of committees implementing the agreement in January.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the Saudi war has claimed more than 100,000 lives in Yemen since 2015.

The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are now in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.

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Large groups of the mercenaries were killed and injured in the counterattack.

In the meantime, Yemen’s artillery unit pounded their gatherings and inflicted more losses on them.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by a Saudi-led coalition for more than four years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

According to a recent UN report, the combined death toll from the Saudi-led aggression and disease is 233,000, or 0.8 percent of Yemen’s 30 million-strong population.

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The army troops foiled the infiltration attempt on Wednesday in Makbana district, Taiz, killing and injuring scores of them, a military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Saba news agency.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than three years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured until then. The war and the accompanying blockade have also caused famine across Yemen.

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