DUBAI, March 19 — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have made major advances on Marib city, the government’s final holdout in the country’s north, after hours of clashes, government military sources said today. The Houthis and the government have been locked in a power struggle since 2014, when the...
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Since last month, the rebels have been pushing to seize Marib, the government’s last northern stronghold and the capital of an oil-rich region. The Houthis had “cut the supply lines of some fronts and are now within firing range of the Al-Mashjab line west of Marib city,” the source said.
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