Yemeni pro-government forces were battling on
Sunday to oust Iran-backed rebels from a southern province where they have made
gains in recent weeks.
Ground fighting and air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition
killed 12 rebels in Daleh province, military sources said. Four loyalists were
also killed.
Daleh is one of five southern provinces which the
coalition-backed loyalists retook from the rebels in a July offensive.
But the Shi’ite Huthi rebels and their
allies managed to
recapture the province's second-largest city, Damt, earlier this month.
Loyalist troops and their coalition backers launched an offensive to try to break the siege earlier this month but it has made little headway.
In the rebel-held capital Sanaa, coalition aircraft carried out what a military source described as the heaviest strikes in weeks.
The rebels overran Sanaa in September last year before capturing much of the rest of the country and forcing the government into exile.
President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi returned from neighbouring Saudi Arabia on November 18, two days after the offensive to relieve the siege of Taez began.
The United Nations says more than 5 700 people have been killed in Yemen since the Saudi-led intervention began in March, nearly half of them civilians.
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