CAIRO
A Saudi Arabia-led coalition against Yemen's Shiite militant Houthi group said Saturday that it received no reply from the Houthis on a humanitarian truce it proposed earlier.
"We have not heard anything positive on the truce yet," coalition spokesman Ahmed Asiri said at a press briefing in Saudi capital Riyadh.
On Friday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry unveiled a proposed five-day humanitarian truce in Yemen, noting that the truce could start as of Tuesday.
The truce makes it, however, necessary for the Houthis to abide by a cease-fire in all Yemeni provinces.
Fractious Yemen has remained in turmoil since last September, when the Houthis overran capital Sanaa, from which they sought to extend their influence to other parts of the country.
On March 25, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies began an extensive military campaign targeting Houthi positions across Yemen.
Riyadh says its air campaign comes in response to appeals by Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi for military intervention against the Houthis.
Hadi, who is backed by the Sunni-majority Gulf States, fled to Riyadh in March after Houthi forces attacked his residence in Yemen's southern port city of Aden.
