Yemen- Yemen’s Houthi militia on Tuesday claimed responsibility for launching two ballistic missiles at military targets in the government-controlled Marib city.“The missiles targeted the Sahn al-Jen camp and the 3rd Region camp at noon (on Tuesday),” Houthi military spokesman Yehya Sarea said in a statement aired by the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV late Tuesday night.

Medics and residents of Marib said earlier that “a Houthi missile hit a residential area, killing three people, including a child.”
The Iran-backed Houthis started a major offensive against the Saudi-backed Yemeni government troops to capture the oil-rich province of Marib in central Yemen.Marib hosts nearly 2 million internally displaced people, as the ongoing civil war has killed tens of thousands of people and taken the Arab nation to the brink of famine, according to the aid agencies.

The United Nations has warned that the offensive on Marib could lead to a major humanitarian catastrophe.A recent round of the UN-brokered negotiations between Yemen’s warring sides has failed to produce a cease-fire agreement.Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014 when the Houthi militia seized control of several northern provinces and forced the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi out of the capital Sanaa. Enditem