The Saudi-led military coalition on Friday targeted Shia Houthi rebels in the port city of Mokha in Yemen's western Taiz province, killing 17 and wounding dozens, the satellite news channel Al-Arabiya reported.
Heavy clashes also took place across Taiz between the Yemeni army-backed Popular Resistance committees and the Iran-backed Houthis and their allied forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, Al-Arabiya said.
The clashes came after a Houthi attacks against the Popular Resistance committees and Yemeni army sites in the Thaabat, Juhaimilya and Bazira neighbourhoods, the news channel said.
On Tuesday, Houthis fired a rocket in a residential district of Marib city, east of the capital, killing seven children, Al-Arabiya said.
Exiled president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi's government and Houthi representatives are due on 15 July to resume United Nations-backed peace talks which have made little progress in two months of negotiations.
Yemen has been at war since September 2014, when Iran-backed Shia Houthi rebels and their allies drove the government out of the capital Sanaa and much of the country's north.
The conflict has killed more than 6,400 people in the impoverished country - about half of them civilians - according to the United Nations, and driven it to the brink of famine.
Saudi Arabia wants to restore Hadi to power and regain government control over large parts of the country that were taken over Houthi rebels in 2014.
The Saudi-led coalition comprises five Gulf Arab states and Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Sudan.
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