
According to rights groups, an estimated 8,983 civilians have been killed in over 25,000 airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen since 2015, many of which were carried out by UK-supplied military equipment

The two regional powers—at loggerheads for the last seven years after Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr—officially re-established diplomatic relations after a historic deal mediated by China in March

The agreement reached on August 2 will extend the UN-mediated truce that was first put into effect in April, with the eventual goal of a peace agreement

Since 2015, Yemen is witnessing a brutal international war with Hadi forces, backed by Saudi Arabia, the US, United Kingdom and France (international coalition), launching violent airstrikes and ground assaults against the Houthi forces

This is the third attack by the Saudi-led coalition in just over a month targeting the same locality, and has invited UN condemnation. The coalition’s ongoing brutal military campaign has killed more than 100,000 people in Yemen since 2015