Yemen Government Forces Capture City as Peace Talks Go on

Yemeni troops loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi gained control of an important northwestern city on Friday, residents and tribal sources said, as a supposed ceasefire appeared close to collapse. The one-week truce was declared to aid the chances of success of peace talks that were expected to resume in Switzerland on Friday, in an effort to end the civil war that erupted in Yemen last year. Al-Hazm, capital of the northwestern al-Jawf province, had been under the control of the...

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