Residents: Besieged Yemeni City Sees Worst Fighting Yet

Airstrikes and artillery fire rocked the Yemeni city of Aden overnight as combatants vied for control of the main airport in fighting that residents have called the worst in more than a month of war. Iran-allied Houthi rebels and local militiamen traded tank and mortar salvos in the Khor Maksar district near the airport from Wednesday evening into Thursday and warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states bombed Houthi positions. On the frontier with Saudi Arabia, a shell fired...

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