(5 Feb 2019) Forces allied with the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Tuesday that they've made gains in the central mountains of the country after battling with Houthi forces over the last two days.
In the south of the province of Taiz, Saudi-led coalition forces have been fighting Houthis, with both sides taking strategic mountain positions.
Colonel Hameed Al-Hamadi said that the Houthis attempted to infiltrate their position but that they "arrested their leaders in the middle of the night".
Waheeb Al-Yousfi, a member of the 35th Brigade, fighting with the coalition added that the "(Houthi) militias sustained numerous injuries and casualties" during the battle.
Yemen's civil war pitting the coalition against the Houthis has been raging since March 2015, when the coalition first made a bid to take back the rebel-held capital Sanaa.
The province of Taiz has been contested between the two sides for much of the war.
It has seen some of the worst fighting and shortages.
The UN says the conflict has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 22 million people in desperate need in what is already the Arab world's poorest country.
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