The Saudi-led coalition bombing rebels in Yemen launched an investigation on Tuesday following international condemnation of an air strike that Doctors Without Borders said killed 11 people at a hospital it supports.
Saudi soldiers on the front lines of the war in Yemen are getting a month's extra salary from King Salman, official media said as combat claimed another trooper's life.
A Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital in Yemen's northern Hajja province on Monday, residents and local officials said, killing at least seven people and wounding 13.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned an air strike on a school in northern Yemen that killed 10 children and called for an investigation, while the Saudi-led coalition said the attack had targeted a training facility run by the Houthi group.
Saudi-led air strikes on a school in a rebel-held province of Yemen have killed 10 children, aid agencies said on Sunday, prompting fresh concerns over civilian casualties in the 17-month war.
At least 10 children were killed and 21 were injured in northern Yemen on Saturday, aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said, in what the country's dominant Houthi group said was a Saudi-led air strike on a school.
Saudi-led coalition jets on Thursday pounded Shia rebel positions in and around Sanaa for a third consecutive day, as shelling from Yemen killed a woman in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi-led coalition warplanes launched fresh air strikes against Shia rebels across Yemen on Wednesday despite international concerns over the escalation after the suspension of peace talks.
Saudi-led coalition warplanes have resumed air strikes on Yemen's capital for the first time in three months, killing 14 people on Tuesday and shutting the airport after UN-brokered talks were suspended.
A Saudi-led coalition air strike killed nine civilians outside the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday night, residents said, as forces loyal to the exiled government stepped up an offensive in the area.
The UN suspended talks between Yemen's warring parties Saturday after the Iran-backed Shia rebels and their allies appointed a council to run the country in a blow to the peace process.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen must do more to address "very serious concerns" about the killing of children, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday, as he weighs whether to return the alliance to a blacklist of child rights violators.
