Scores killed as fighting intensifies near Marib city

AL-MUKALLA: More than 150 Houthi and Yemeni government troops have been killed in fierce clashes outside the central city of Marib. 

Rashad Al-Mekhlafi, a military official at Yemen’s Armed Forces Guidance Department, told Arab News from Marib that the army troops and allied tribesmen have engaged in clashes with the Houthis in different locations south of the city, including Harib, Jouba and Jabal Murad.