Fighting between coalition rival militias in Taiz resumed

TAIZ, July 22 (YPA) – Fighting between the Islah party militants backed by Turkey and UAE-backed factions resumed  in the southwestern countryside of Taiz province on Wednesday.

Local sources said that the clashes broke out in the district of Dhaba at the western outskirts of the Al-Shamaytin Directorate, pointing that the parties to the conflict used for various types of weapon in the fighting.

The clashes have expanded in the past few hours in the areas of the al-Markez, Ghabyra, Samsarah, Tabat al-Zinoub and Wadi Bani Hammad, the sources said.

The death toll from the clashes was not immediately known.

These developments come just two days after a shaky truce imposed by social and political pressures on both sides of the conflict in Hadi’s government, represented by Al-Islah and Tariq Saleh’s forces.

Each side is trying to exclude the other from being in this strategic area, which is an advanced point on the Bab al-Mandab insurance line on Yemen’s west coast, amid reports of Turkish efforts to establish a base there.

Recent developments indicate that the war will not stop in the al-Hujarya district, without defeating one of the parties without confrontations governed by a Turkish-Emirati agenda.

E.M