Dozens of Houthi fighters were killed by Yemen in the fierce fighting with government forces in the last 24 hours in the provinces of Marib, Lahj, Juf and Al-Bayda, military and tribal leaders said on Sunday.
At least 40 Hutsis were killed on Saturday and Sunday in the Rahab area, south of Marib, when government forces repulsed progress in the region's mountain areas, Colonel Yahiya al-Hatemi, director of military media, told Arab News Yemeni army.
The Yemeni military official said that the army and allied tribes, with the air support of the Arab coalition, launched a counter-offensive in the area and managed to capture the mountain and weapons left behind by Houth militants.
War planes conducted several rescue raids in the province of Marib, focusing on military vehicles with fighters and weapons aimed at the battlefield.
The tribes reported seeing at least two combat vehicles that caught fire in the Marib province after the fire caught fire.
By taking the Hutis from Mount Al-Abzah, they will gain faithful control of a large strip of land south of Maribu and effectively suppress the Houthi threat to the city of Marib from the south.
Despite casualties in the south, the Houthis continued to aggressively attack government forces in areas west of Marib, local media reported.
The Houthis attacked a government force in the Al-Mashjah and Al-Qasar regions, but were unable to achieve any territorial successes.