The coalition launched air strikes on Yemen hours after Ansar Allah fighters announced a three-day truce, with the UN chief condemning a surge in violence as the war enters its eighth year. The raids targeted Sanaa, the Ansar Allah-held capital, according to Saudi Arabia's Al Ekhbariya TV, which tweeted "the start of air strikes on Ansar Allah camps and strongholds in Sanaa" around midnight.
The attacks began shortly after Ansar Allah announced a three-day truce and offered peace talks on condition that the Saudis stop their air strikes and blockade of Yemen and remove "foreign forces". Just a day earlier, the fighters had fired drones and missiles at 16 targets in Saudi Arabia, turning an oil plant near Jeddah's Formula One track into a raging inferno as aghast drivers looked on. - AFP
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