Houthis capture presidential palace in Aden
Security sources say Ansarullah fighters of Yemen’s Houthi movement have managed to take control of the presidential palace in the southern city of Aden following heavy clashes in the commercial center of this southern coastal city
Security sources say Ansarullah fighters of Yemen’s Houthi movement have managed to take control of the presidential palace in the southern city of Aden following heavy clashes in the commercial center of this southern coastal city.
Thursday’s capture came despite week-long airstrikes in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition trying to halt the advance of the rebels known as Houthis.
Aden’s Maasheeq palace is a cluster of colonial-era villas perched atop a rocky hill that juts into the Arabian Sea. The palace was President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s last seat of power before he fled to Saudi Arabia last month amid the Houthi advance.
