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Saudi-led Airstrikes Kill 30 in Yemen's Capital

by VOA News

   At least 30 people were killed in airstrikes Wednesday on a police camp
   in Yemen's capital.

   At least 80 others were wounded when pre-dawn raids hit a prison that
   is run by rebels in the military police compound in Sanaa.

   The strikes were carried out by a Saudi-led coalition against the
   rebels -- a campaign that has not let up since it began in March 2015,
   despite an appeal Sunday by U.N. chief Antonio Guterres for a renewed
   push to end the "stupid war."

   On Sunday, Saudi-led strikes killed at least 26 rebel fighters at a
   training camp northwest of the capital. On Friday, a strike on a
   rebel-controlled television station in Sanaa killed four guards.

   U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Saudi Arabia on Friday to
   curb its military intervention in Yemen, a country in the throes of a
   humanitarian crisis triggered by a two-year civil war.

   Last week, Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed by
   Iran-backed rebel Houthis -- his uneasy allies-turned-foes -- plunging
   the country into further uncertainty and violence, and prompting some
   of the fiercest fighting since the start of a multiparty conflict three
   years ago.