At least 14 Yemeni soldiers were killed and more than 20 others injured in an attack by Iran-backed Houthi re-bels on government forces in Yemen’s Red Sea province of Hodeidah, accord-ing to media reports.<\/p>\n
The attack targeted government mili-tary positions on Mount Dabas in the Hays district, where intense shelling continued until Saturday, military and local sources said.<\/p>\n
The assault is being described as the first major attack of its kind against the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces in the Hodeidah region in recent years.<\/p>\n
The Houthis have been fighting Yemen’s internationally recognised government since 2015 in a conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n
The latest escalation comes amid con-tinued regional tensions and renewed concerns over the security situation in Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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