{Army forces enter southwestern port city of Mokha, as dozens of families flee ongoing clashes and bombardments.}<\/p>\n
The Yemeni army said it has taken full control of Mokha, a port city southwest of the capital Sanaa which had been taken by Houthi rebels in November 2014.<\/p>\n
Brigade General Ahmed Seif al-Yafai said in press remarks on Monday that his forces entered Mokha, where dozens of families were seen fleeing days of clashes and bombardment.<\/p>\n
Government forces were combing the port, an AFP news agency journalist accompanying the troops said.<\/p>\n
A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen’s civil war nearly two years ago to back President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after he was overthrown from the capital Sanaa by Houthi forces.<\/p>\n
The latest development came almost three weeks after the Hadi loyalists launched an offensive against the rebels and their allies on Yemen’s southwestern coast.<\/p>\n
Warplanes and Apache attack helicopters from a Saudi-led Arab coalition have been pounding the rebels in support of pro-Hadi forces, military sources told AFP.<\/p>\n
{{‘Weapons smuggling’}}<\/p>\n
Government forces said the rebels were using the port in Mokha to smuggle weapons into Yemen.<\/p>\n
At least 10,000 people have died in the mostly stalemated Yemeni conflict, which has unleashed a humanitarian crisis in the already poor Arabian Peninsula country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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