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Yemeni counter-terrorism forces arrested on Tuesday a leader of the Yemen-based affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) group suspected of recruiting suicide assailants in the southern port city of Aden.
"I don't think the word 'human' applies to the people in western Yemen who lack all basic services, " Ibrahim Al-Kala'e said while describing the suffering in Hodeida province.
Delegates of Yemen's internationally recognized government in Kuwait suspended their participation in the ongoing negotiations with Houthis for the second time this month, Yemen's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
The latest cease-fire in Yemen starting a week ago was supposed to pave the way for a newest round of peace talks to kick off in Kuwait on Monday, but the warring sides' acts in the field have drummed out their earlier willing words to end the hostility, leaving many to fear, again, a similar dim future for the talks as previous ones.
The cease-fire in Yemen, commenced at midnight Sunday, is teetering amid violations from all warring parties, including the Saudi-led Arab coalition.
The ceasefire which was lately reached by Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Ansarullah, known as the Houthi militia, is taking hold. Analysts here foresee rocky and thorny problems ahead before permanent truce is reached.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for "a prompt and impartial investigation" into the Saturday airstrike on a market in Yemen that killed at least 32 civilians.
The Saudi-led coalition launched an investigation into allegations of violations in Yemen Sunday, including the death of innocent people via friendly fire, reported Al Arabiya local news agency.
The Yemen-based affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) group have claimed responsibility for a fresh suicide car bombing in Yemen that took place Friday night at a military checkpoint near Yemen's President Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's residence.
More than half of the total population of Yemen, some 14.4 million people, are food insecure due to ongoing conflict and import restrictions, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday.
More than 2,700 civilians have been killed since the start of conflict in Yemen in January, senior UN officials said here Tuesday.
The Saudi-led coalition forces bombed Houthi targets in several provinces in Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, despite a U.N.-brokered truce, sources said.
Saudi-led coalition forces intensified air bombings against several military bases and destroyed arms depots in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Tuesday, hours before a planned five-day humanitarian truce comes into force.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham on Sunday condemned Saudi-led attack on Yemen as "genocide", according to Iran's Foreign Ministry's website.
Up to 18 civilians were killed and 47 others wounded when warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition forces mistakenly hit a populated neighborhood in Yemen' s southern port city of Aden on Monday, a government official told Xinhua.
The United Nations said Wednesday that the death toll in the fighting in Yemen over the past month topped 1,000 and aid agencies continue to face access constraints in the country.
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