YEMEN Press Agency

Top commander loyal to coalition killed in western coast

HODEIDAH, Dec. 16 (YPA) – Military sources closed to the Saudi-led coalition said that a top commander loyal to Tariq Afash was killed on Saturday in Yemen’s Hodeidah province.

Colonel “Hussein Abu Houria” a commander of a faction loyal to Tariq Afash, and a former commander of the so-called counter-terrorism forces in Aden, along with several of his escorts were killed in fierce fighting with Yemeni army forces in the western coast front.

E.M