Saudi Defeats in Yemen Push Halting Assault on Al-Hudaydah

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As a result of the successive defeats inflicted on the Saudi-led coalition’s military aggression against Yemen, it ordered a halt in its offensive on Yemen's main port city of al-Hudaydah.

The Saudi-led coalition ordered a halt in its offensive on Yemen's main port city, three sources told Reuters on Thursday.

"The coalition has instructed forces on the ground to halt fighting inside al-Hudaydah," said one pro-coalition military source.

The development comes in an apparent concession to Western pressure to end the war.

Key Western allies including the United States have been urgently calling for a ceasefire ahead of renewed UN-led peace efforts.

The nearly four-year-old war has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people and caused a humanitarian disaster in an already impoverished Yemen.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team