ADEN: Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah has warned Houthi terrorists that there is no place in the country for more adventures.
He also vowed to press on with a campaign to retake territory from Houthis.
“There is no room for any more political or military adventures,” said Bahah, who is also vice president.
“This is a last warning to the Houthis and their allies” among troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Bahah was speaking at a military camp near the strategic Bab Al-Mandab Strait, which loyalist forces retook control over on Tuesday.
The narrow waterway funnels shipping to and from the Suez Canal, which lies at the north end of the Red Sea.
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his government returned to Aden recently following six months in exile, after loyalist forces regained control of the port city and four other southern provinces from the rebels.
The Houthis still control the capital and northern provinces near the border with Saudi Arabia, but loyalists have been pressing a campaign whose eventual aim is to regain Sanaa.
Bahah said the current operation “will push to retake Mokha and Hodeida,” both on the Red Sea, and then the “whole coastline up to the border with Saudi Arabia.”
The port of Mokha is located some 20 km north of the area seized this week.
Hodeida, about 190 km farther north, lies to the west of Sanaa. Controlling it would help create a pincer on the capital, as loyalist forces have also been pressing rebels in Marib province, to its east.
Yemen PM warns Houthis: ‘No room for anymore adventures’
Yemen PM warns Houthis: ‘No room for anymore adventures’
Syrian authorities arrest leader of terrorist cells in Lattakia
- Ali Aziz Sbeira is accused of violating civilians’ rights during the Syrian uprising after 2011
LONDON: Syrian authorities have arrested Ali Aziz Sbeira, a prominent leader of terrorist cells responsible for attacks on internal security checkpoints, the Syrian army and civilians during the country’s uprising against the former regime of Bashar Assad.
The Internal Security Directorate announced on Wednesday the capture of Sbeira in Lattakia province, located on the Mediterranean Sea.
Authorities accuse him of leading and supplying arms to terrorist groups. Hailing from the town of Jableh, Sbeira is also accused of having links to Ghiyath Dalla and Brigadier General Nours Makhlouf, two military figures associated with the former rule of Assad.
Sbeira is accused of violating civilians’ rights during the Syrian uprising after 2011, when he joined the National Defense Militia and helped suppress peaceful demonstrations, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
In 2014, he joined the 4th Armoured Division, which was commanded by Maher Assad, brother of the former president, from 2018 until the collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024.
