Yemen pro-Government troops retake rebel-held base in South

Yemen’s pro-government troops have fought pockets of resistance outside a key military base in the country’s south, a day after they seized it from Shiite rebels, military officials said.

The capture of the Al-Anad base – once the site of US intelligence operations against al Qaida’s powerful Yemeni affiliate – was a significant victory for the forces allied to Yemen’s exiled president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in their battle to reverse the gains of the rebels known as Houthis.