Houthi ammo dump in Taiz bombarded

ARAB coalition airstrikes targeted several positions of the Houthi rebels and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh across Yemen on Friday. Yemeni military sources confirmed that coalition warplanes had targeted and struck Houthi militia weapon caches in the southwestern city of Taiz. At the same time, the coalition warplanes bombed several mobile targets and weapons caches of the Houthi-Saleh alliance, in various parts of Saada province. The rebels responded with a counter attack, apparently targeting residential areas, as a result, an unknown number of civilians were killed or injured. In Mareb, coalition fighters struck Houthi militia on the outskirts of the Sarwah area. Meanwhile, coalition airstrikes hit a missile launching pad south of Al-Hadidah city, beside few others in the Jarban wadi in the Directorate of Sanhan. Saleh slams Houthi allies Saleh launched a scathing on his Houthi allies, warning them of their policy of eliminating and dismissing members of his political party, the General People Congress, from public positions. Saleh’s outburst, the first since the Houthi militias controlled the Yemeni capital Sanaa in 2014, came during a meeting with representatives of his party in the newly formed political council, the Supreme Political Council. In an apparent frustration of the newly formed council’s recent directives, Saleh said: “The political council should not be altered into an executive power, it is a political council to illustrate policies and to regulate the government. The government is in charge, and it is the executive body.” “Passing through you ministers of the Congress I address Ansar Allah ministers: these seditions and tactics and are unwarranted,” he added. Since the overthrow of Yemen’s legitimate government and the formation of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee, Houthi militias exercised unprecedented administrative corruption, appointing 10,000 of their supporters as civil servants, whilst sacking and eliminating loyalists to the Saudi-backed government, except for Saleh’s supporters. — Al Arabiya English