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Saudi-led coalition warplanes at dawn Wednesday bombed a key military site controlled by the Houthis in southern Yemen, a military source has said.
The source, requesting anonymity, told The Anadolu Agency that the coalition launched ten airstrikes on the flashpoint Al-Anad airbase, located in the southern Lahij province.
The source said that the dawn strikes were the heaviest in Lahij since the start of the Saudi-led offensive against the Houthis in Yemen two weeks ago.
Late last month, Houthis overran the airbase and purportedly detained Yemeni Defense Minister Mahmoud al-Subaihi and other military officials loyal to embattled President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is currently in Saudi Arabia.
Fractious Yemen has remained in turmoil since last September, when the Shiite Houthi militant group overran capital Sanaa, from which they have sought to extend their influence to other parts of the country.
On March 25, Saudi Arabia and several other states began launching airstrikes against Houthi positions across Yemen.
The Saudi-led coalition says the campaign is in response to Hadi's appeals to "save the [Yemeni] people from the Houthi militias."
The Houthis, for their part, describe the offensive as an unwarranted "Saudi-American aggression" against the Yemeni people.
Some Gulf States accuse Shiite Iran of supporting Yemen's Houthi insurgency.
