Anxiety reigns in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, where ordinary people await the outcome of almost a month of peace talks they hope can end a devastating war.
Yemen's government and Iran-backed rebels agreed on Tuesday to free half of the prisoners and detainees held by both sides, in the first breakthrough in peace talks that began last month.
Seven people were killed and more than 15 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on Friday that struck a market in the Yemeni city of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, police sources told Reuters.
UN-backed peace talks to end Yemen's civil war resumed on Wednesday after they were suspended by the Yemeni government for three days in protest at a Houthi assault on a military base near Sanaa.
At least 13 pro-government fighters were killed in a rebel attack on their positions near the Yemeni capital despite a UN-brokered ceasefire taking effect this week, military sources said.
At least 55 people, including 14 civilians, have been killed in two days of fighting between pro-government forces and Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen, officials said Sunday.
A Saudi-led coalition air strike on a market northeast of the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa killed at least 30 rebels and civilians, witnesses said.
Clashes between Yemeni forces and Al-Qaeda militants in Aden killed at least six people, including four members of the same family, security officials and witnesses said.
Saudi-led air strikes targeting Houthi forces intensified in Yemen, an escalation of a nine-month-old war that follows a rise in tensions between the kingdom and Tehran.
