Days of Saudi-backed airstrikes against Yemen's Shiite Houthi group has seen accumulated chaos and bloodshed as more countries have moved to evacuate their nationals from the crisis-engulfed Middle East nation.
The Yemeni foreign minister said Thursday that the legitimate leadership of Yemen seeks a peaceful national dialogue after settlement of the situation in the conflict-stricken country, Egyptian official news agency reported.
The Saudi-led coalition forces launched a fresh air strike against a Houthi-controlled air base in Yemen's southern province of Taiz on Thursday night, a government official told Xinhua.
The Saudi-led coalition forces have conducted air strikes for the second night on Thursday in Yemen's capital and several other cities that destroyed military targets of the Shiite Houthi group and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh who was accused of allying the Houthis to overrun the country.
Warplanes raided military camps belonging to the Shiite Houthi group in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Thursday, a defense ministry official told Xinhua.
Flights were halted at Aden's international airport after heavy armed clashes erupted between the security forces and dozens of tribal militias on Thursday morning, a military official told Xinhua.
The al-Qaida militants launched attacks against the Houthi group in Yemen's al-Bayda province on Tuesday, which killed at least 27 Houthi militants and wounded dozens of others.
After almost one-month house arrest by the Houthi group, Yemen's outgoing President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi confirmed Sunday that he is carrying on with presidential duties after he left the country's capital Sanaa which is under the control of militia.
The Yemeni parliament on Thursday night rejected President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's resignation and called for holding an emergency session on Friday to resolve the crisis, the parliament said in a statement obtained by Xinhua.
About 12 Shiite Houthi gunmen were killed when suspected al-Qaida suicide attack targeted their military position in southeastern province of al-Bayda on Monday evening, a tribal chief told Xinhua.
An al-Qaida suicide bombing struck a Shiite Houthi protest rally in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, killing at least 47 people, the Health Ministry said, hours after the new prime minister quit the post amid threats of mass protests.
The United States on Wednesday threatened to slap sanctions on some of the Shiite rebels deemed to undermine Yemen's uneasy transition process.
Yemeni riot police on Sunday evening fired tear gas to disperse Shiite Houth rebels who blocked a main road to the Sanaa International Airport in an escalation of their standoff with the government, witnesses told Xinhua. About 10 Shiite protesters were injured in the clashes.
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