Yemen’s Houthi rebels resumed attacks on government forces just hours after the end of a six-month UN-mediated truce between the country’s warring parties. The Iran-backed Houthis launched attacks in a number of governorates in an attempt to secure battlefield gains, The New Arab’s Arabic sister service, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, reported. This includes attacks against government positions in the Taiz province in the southwest and the oil-rich Marib Governorate in Yemen’s east. Colonel Saleh Al-Qutaibi, deputy chief of the Yemeni army’s media centre, told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the Houthis had laun…