Forces loyal to Yemen President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi made significant advances in the country's third largest city of Taez, according to Al Arabiya news channel. The Popular Resistance made the gains in the strategic town days after Vice President Khaled Bahah announced the liberation of the southern city of Aden. The recapture of the busy port represent a strategic breakthrough in the conflict that has been raging in the impoverished Arabian country for months. Also in Taez, Iranian-backed Houthi-militias have targeted residential areas in Jabal al –Jarrah mountain. In the capital Sanaa, the Popular Resistance killed six Houthis in a shooting at a checkpoint near the central bank. Five other Houthis were killed in a car bombing against a police station in the Al-Hassaba district in the north of the city, according to Reuters. Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen's war on March 26 in an effort to stop Houthi and pro-Saleh forces taking Aden, the last city nominally controlled by exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government, and to restore him to power in Sanaa.
