Airstrikes kill 8 Yemeni rebels

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed eight Yemeni Huthi rebels near the port of Hodeidah yesterday, triggering fierce battles around the flashpoint city, local officials said. The new escalation threatens a fragile truce in the Red Sea city that was reached after United Nations-brokered peace talks in Sweden late last year. Several more rebels were wounded in yesterday’s raids that targeted military positions of the Iran-backed Huthis north of Hodeidah, two local officials told AFP.