Conflict in Yemen threatens peace talks

RIYADH Reuters: Both parties in Yemen’s eight-year war have accused one another of carrying out assaults that disrupted a brief respite in hostilities and jeopardized peace negotiations that had been progressing.

Since 2015, the Houthi movement in Yemen has fought a Saudi-led coalition in a war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and left 80% of the people in need of humanitarian help.

Mohammed Abdulsalam, a spokesman for the Houthis, claimed that in the last month along the Saudi border, the coalition had killed 12 of the group’s troops. We emphasize the need of entering an era of meaningful peace, even though we consider cases of truce breach to be regretful, he told Reuters.

The Houthis, who are allied with Iran, reacted to claims that two Bahraini army troops were killed and several others were injured on Monday in a drone strike on Saudi Arabia’s southern border.

That was denounced by the Saudi-led alliance, which noted that it came after more Houthi strikes on a border-area police station and a power distribution unit.

General Turki al-Malki, a spokesman for the coalition, stated that such persistent hostile and provocative activities are inconsistent with the good efforts being made to find a solution to the problem.