Pro-govt forces retake Yemeni airport

Pro-government fighters in south Yemen seized Aden’s airport on Tuesday as they launched a new offensive against Iran-backed rebels supported by Saudi-led warplanes and ships, military sources said.

The fighters from the Popular Resistance also pushed back the Shiite Huthi rebels and their allies from areas within the war-torn port city, the sources said. Warships off the coast of Aden took part in the battle which a presidential official said was part of a new military campaign to regain control of all of the city.

Exiled Prez Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi is “personally supervising the operation” dubbed “Operation Golden Arrow for the Liberation of Aden,” said his office director Mohammed Marem from Aden.