The Saudi-led coalition that intervenes militarily in Yemen claimed on Saturday that it had killed 186 Houthi rebels in the past 24 hours in new raids in the provinces of Marib and Al-Baida.
The coalition, which has come to the aid of the government since 2015, has claimed almost daily since last month to inflict heavy losses on the rebels in air strikes.
However, these reports cannot be independently verified and the Houthis rarely communicate their losses.
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Coalition air force supports government ground troops attempting to repel the Houthi offensive seeking to capture the town of Marib, capital of the province of the same name and the last loyalist stronghold in the north of the country .
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Seventeen military vehicles were destroyed and over 186 [insurgents]
" were killed in the past 24 hours in raids in Sirwa (west of Marib town) and Al-Baida, the province bordering Marib in the south, the coalition said in a statement released by the official Saudi press agency SPA.
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Since the conflict broke out in 2014, the Houthis have gradually taken control of a large part of northern Yemen, including the capital Sana'a, but not Marib.
In seven years, the war has plunged Yemen into one of the world's worst humanitarian dramas according to the UN, with more than two-thirds of the population dependent on international aid.
Tens of thousands of people, most of them civilians, have been killed and millions displaced according to international organizations.
