Truce reached between Houthis and army in Yemen
Iran Press TV
Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:48PM GMT
A truce deal has been inked between Yemen's Houthi fighters and the army in an effort to end two months of deadly clashes in the northeastern province of al-Jouf.
The news of the ceasefire came on Thursday while the UN envoy is Yemen's Saada to meet the leader of revolutionaries.
A spokesman for Yemen's Islah Party has approved that the involved parties agreed to the truce deal, saying that the complete ceasefire would hopefully be reached.
Shia fighters and government forces started to withdraw their forces after they reached the truce agreement.
Elsewhere, despite the truce, officials said that thousands of people were forced to flee their homes in Shamlan due to intensified fighting.
The clashes in the last 48 hours also left 60 people killed.
The Houthi movement played a key role in the popular revolution that forced former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.
Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 33 years, stepped down in February 2012 under a US-backed power transfer deal in return for immunity, after a year of mass street demonstrations demanding his ouster.
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