Reuters: Saudi-led coalition ending Yemen ceasefire, state news agency says
A Saudi-led coalition that has been bombing the Houthi movement in Yemen for nine months announced on Saturday the end of a ceasefire that began on Dec. 15, the Saudi state news agency SPA said, in a setback to attempts to end the conflict.
The ceasefire began in tandem with peace talks sponsored by the United Nations, but it was repeatedly violated by both sides. Nearly 6,000 people have been killed since the Saudi coalition entered the conflict in March, almost half of them civilians.
The coalition began its military campaign in prevent the Houthis, whom it sees as a proxy for Iran, from taking complete control of Yemen after seizing much of the north last year. The Houthis accuse the coalition of launching a war of aggression.
Yemen War News Updates -- January 3, 2016
Yemen conflict: Saudi-led coalition ends ceasefire -- BBC
Saudi-led coalition ends Yemen ceasefire -- Al Arabiya
Saudi-Led Coalition Says Yemen Truce Ends Saturday -- AP
Yemeni Government Forces Clash With Militants Over Aden Port -- AP
Kuwait to send troops to Saudi for Yemen war: report -- AFP
Yemen war cost Saudi $5.3bn: Minister -- Press TV
Key areas in the Yemen conflict -- Diana Alghoul, Middle East Monitor
Photographing the Cost of War in Yemen -- Time
End of ceasefire was inevitable -- National Editorial
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The Saudi-led coalition has been ineffective, able to bomb factories, food centers and recently a Coca-Cola plant, but for ground forces they are depending upon mercenaries from Latin America and other places. There are no would-be effective soldiers from the Gulf countries any longer. Meanwhile the Houthis have stifled the alliance advance and have even roamed through some cities in the Saudi southwest, destroying equipment. There are videos of it.
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