Saudi -led coalition warplanes pounded rebel
position across Yemen overnight ,witnesses
said hours before the country's warring faction
were set to begin oeace talks in Geneva on
Monday
The coalition carried out pre-dawn strike on
rebel-held missile depots on the Faji Attan
hill over looking the capital Sanaa resident
said,
Other strikes targeted rebels in Amran province
farther north as well as Hajja near the Saudi
border and nearby Huthi rebel strong hold
Saada Coalition warplanes late on Sunday
also hit rebel position in the oil rich Marib
province in the Yemen east,
Residents in third city Taze accused the Iran-
backed Huthi rebels and their allies of shelling
residential areas using tanks and artillerly
late Sunday The sources spoke of civilian
casualties but AFP could not immediately
obtain a toll,
The war in Yemen has so far claimed more
than 2,500 lives since air strikes began in
March ,according to the United Nations,
UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon, who
who will open the Geneva talks on Monday
has said the repeatedly delayed consultation
aim for a ceasefire ,an agreement on s with-
drawal plan for the rebels and the stepping
up humanitarian aid deliveries,
Fearing an Iran friendly regime on its southern
border ,Riyadh has been leading a campaign
of air strikes against the rebels since March
26 but has so far failed to force them from
territory they have seized,
The rebes have even advanced ,taking control
of Al-Hazm the main city of Jawi province
on Sunday with little resistance,residents and
pro- government fighters said,
The city lies only 150 kilometers south of the
border with Saudi Arabia,
AFP,
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