Dozens killed as humanitarian crisis mounts in Yemen: What next for war?

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Government forces reclaim key territories in Taiz and Lahij but face setbacks under Houthi resistance in certain areas.

Dozens were killed in Yemen on Friday when a missile struck a market in Taiz governorate, with each side of Yemen’s brutal war blaming the other for the attack.

It has been a month since Yemen’s internationally recognised government launched its “Dawn of Yemen” offensive on the Iran-aligned Houthi rebel group after it took swaths of territory along the country’s Red Sea coast.

As the fighting continues, the humanitarian crisis is only intensifying, with hundreds of thousands displaced so far.

Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council has said the government will continue with its “irreversible” drive to dismantle Houthi military capacity and restore sovereignty, meaning the war may get worse before there is any resolution, observers say.

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