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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Saudi-led coalition airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen have resumed after a five-day truce.
Yemeni security officials say the coalition airstrikes began to hit rebel positions and tanks in several neighborhoods of the southern port city of Aden after the cease-fire expired at 11 p.m. on Sunday.
The cease-fire hadn't halted all fighting in Yemen between the Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and government forces loyal to exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Earlier Sunday, hundreds of Yemeni politicians and tribal leaders gathered in Saudi Arabia for three days of talks on Yemen's future, but the Houthis refused to participate.
The Shiite rebels reject the main aim of the talks — the restoration of Hadi, who fled the country in March in the face of rebel advances — and the location of the negotiations in Saudi Arabia.
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