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Yemeni Forces and Houthis Exchange Attacks, Each Claiming Heavy Losses
By Maya Wilson
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Yemeni government forces and Houthi rebels exchanged attacks, with both sides claiming to have inflicted heavy losses on the other, according to Al Jazeera reporting.
The government side said 190 Houthi fighters were killed or wounded in the fighting. The figure is a claim by the government side and could not be independently verified, Al Jazeera reported.
The Houthis, meanwhile, said they had inflicted heavy losses on government forces. Al Jazeera’s reporting did not provide a casualty figure for the Houthi claim, and the competing accounts could not be independently verified.
The latest fighting comes during Operation Dawn of Yemen, the government offensive against the Houthis that began on October 5, according to Al Jazeera’s coverage.
The available reporting did not establish an independently verified toll for the exchange of attacks. It also did not provide additional casualty figures beyond the government’s claim of 190 rebel fighters killed or wounded.
With each side presenting its own account of the fighting, the scale of the losses remains unconfirmed in the reporting.
— Maya Wilson, World Desk
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