Leaders in exile pull out of talks

Yemen's exiled government said on Sunday it would no longer attend UN-mediated peace talks with its Houthi adversaries.

Loyalists of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi have been battling the Iran-allied militia across the country since late March, when the group forced him and his administration to flee to Saudi Arabia.

A mainly Gulf Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in the conflict, mounting hundreds of airstrikes on the Houthis and backing ground forces they hope will force the group to accept an April UN Security Council resolution calling on them to recognize Hadi and leaveYemen's main cities. The Houthis took control of the capital Sanaa in September last year.