The death toll from a suspected Houthi rebel missile attack on Yemeni government forces has risen to at least 116, making it one of the bloodiest incidents in the country’s civil war, and threatening to derail the country’s fragile peace process. While the government blamed the Houthi movement, which seized the capital, Sana’a, six years ago, none of the many groups fighting in Yemen has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. The senior Houthi commander Jaber Al Muwaed was killed on Monday, according to Saudi television channel al-Arabiya. Suleimani’s death prompted demonstrations against the US in Sana’a and promises of revenge from the Houthi leadership. “I have said before that the hard-earned progress that Yemen has made on de-escalation is very fragile.

Source: The Guardian January 21, 2020 14:13 UTC