Yemeni President Abdrabbou Mansour Hadi said Tuesday that military operations against Houthi militias would not stop until the Yemeni capital was liberated. Backed by airstrikes from the Saudi-led coalition, popular resistance and Yemeni armed forces loyal to Hadi are fighting Houthis who control Sanaa and much of the country's north. Hadi, the internationally recognized president of Yemen, described the operation to recapture Sanaa as a "decisive battle that is irreversible," in a phone call with the governor of Sanaa, cited by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Hadi said pro-government forces had achieved "a number of victories in parts of Sanaa" and that the military operation would not end until the Yemeni capital was "liberated from coup militias." The conflict pits a loose array of government-allied forces against Houthis and troops loyal to a former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. — Al Arabiya News
