Saudi-Led Strikes Hit Yemen's Aden as Peace Talks Fail
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Saudi-led warplanes launched dawn raids Saturday, June 20, on Yemen's southern port city of Aden hours after peace talks in Geneva ended without agreement.
At least 15 air strikes rocked the northern, eastern, and western approaches to Aden, said a pro-government military source.
The violence came hours after the United Nation's special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced Friday, June 19, in Geneva that talks between the warring sides ended without agreement, AFP reported.
"I won't beat around the bush. There was no kind of agreement reached," the Mauritanian diplomat told reporters in the Swiss city.
More than 2,600 have been killed in Yemen fighting which has also left 80% of the population – 20 million people – in need of urgent humanitarian aid, according to UN estimates.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies began to launch deadly air strikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
The airstrikes have killed more than hundreds of innocent people, including 229 women and 411 children and injured many more.
The Saudi-led aerial strikes have targeted 61 hospitals and 13 ambulances.