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The Yemeni army regained control of areas in western Marib province after clashes with the Houthi militia, state news agency SPA reported on Saturday.
The attack resulted to multiple casualties amongst the militia including deaths, wounds and destroyed vehicles, a statement released by the Yemeni Armed Forces media center said.
Away from the Ukraine-Russia diplomatic wrangling, fighting still rages in the east, with both sides blaming each other for the violence.
The conflict in Ukraine has been in the headlines for its links to the US president’s impeachment inquiry.
The Pacific people of Bougainville will on Saturday begin voting in a referendum to decide if they want to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea.
The referendum will run over two weeks and is a key part of a 2001 peace agreement that ended a civil war in which at least 15,000 people died in the cluster of islands to the east of the Papua New Guinea mainland.
Al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, al-Shabaab, stated yesterday that it’s men have captured a town in the disputed Sanaag region of northern Somalia.
While the federal government of Somalia claims Sanaag, the region is effectively under the control of the Somaliland administration.
Israel says it has hit dozens of targets in Syria belonging to the government and allied Iranian forces.
The Israeli military says the “wide-scale strikes” responded to rockets fired by an Iranian unit into Israel.