Saudi-led assault kills about 100 in deadliest bombings of Yemen war

Saudi-led air strikes killed about 100 people near Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen. Tribesmen aligned with the Houthis have been fighting Saudi ground forces in the area, and border clashes have escalated the conflict between the Shi'ite Muslim rebels and the coalition of Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab states.

So far we’re not sure how many are dead.

A Yemeni soldier told Reuters

The United Nations is trying to reschedule peace talks for Yemen that had originally been due to begin in Geneva on Thursday. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized Sanaa last September and then thrust into central and south Yemen. Seeing the Houthi advance as a bridgehead for Iranian influence in the region, a Saudi-led coalition began air strikes on March 26 in a campaign to restore Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power.

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