Rebel attack on Yemen biggest airbase kills 30

Strikes on Yemen's largest airbase yesterday killed at least 30 pro-government troops and wounded t least 56 more, said medical and loyalist sources who blamed Iran-backed Huthi rebels for the attack.

The strikes were carried out on Al-Anad airbase, some 60 kilometres north of Yemen's second city Aden in the south of the conflict-riven country.

The airbase served as the headquarters for US troops overseeing a long-running drone war against al-Qaeda until they pulled out in March 2015, shortly before the Huthis overran the area.

An armed forces spokesman accused Yemen's Shia Huthi rebels of carrying out missile and drone strikes on the facility.