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Shia rebels and the Yemeni government have signed an agreement aimed at halting violent clashes that have left more than 140 people dead and forced thousands to flee their homes.
The accord was brokered over the weekend by the UN envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar.
Hundreds of Kurdish fighters from Turkey have arrived in the Syrian Kurdish town of Ayn al-Arab to join a Kurdish militia group battling to hold off ISIS forces, activists said Saturday.
Clashes continue in the area between the militia, called the People’s Protection Unit (YPG,) and the ISIS fighters, according the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The clashes between the Houthis and the military are ongoing in different areas in the capital, leaving nearly a hundred killed and wounded, several news agencies report.
As of Friday afternoon, fighting has continued in Al-A’anab area, near the barracks of the 1st Armored Division, and in 30 Meter Street near to the Iman University, a private university owned by the Islamic Sunni Cleric Sheikh Abdulmajid Al-Zindani, one of the senior leaders of the Islah Party.
Fighting between rival Shiite and Sunni groups has intensified after weeks of anti-government protests.
Fresh clashes in Yemen between rebels and government allies has claimed over 20 lives on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Kurdish peshmerga forces on Tuesday recaptured seven Christian villages in northern Iraq in clashes with Islamic State (IS) jihadists, an officer and a cleric said.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians, most of them Chaldeans, fled their homes when IS militants launched a renewed drive in the north in early August.
