Yemen’s civil aviation authority has ordered the closure of all its airports to air traffic until further notice after the Aden-based government said its forces carried out a strike on Sanaa airport to prevent an Iranian aircraft from landing there.
The leader of Yemen’s internationally recognised governing council, Rashad al-Alimi, also said on Monday that he would not expand his confrontation with the Houthis as “that would achieve Iran’s objective of dragging Yemen and its people into wars”.
