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US hails end to Saudi airstrikes

22 April 2015 04:33 (UTC +04:00)

On Tuesday, the White House welcomed the decision, calling for talks to end the conflict in the impoverished country.

"The United States welcomes today's announcement by the government of Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners of the conclusion of Operation Decisive Storm in Yemen," National Security Council spokesman Alistair Baskey told AFP.

"We continue to support the resumption of a UN-facilitated political process and the facilitation of humanitarian assistance."

Earlier in the day, Riyadh declared a halt to aerial bombardment of the impoverished country, a move also hailed by the government in Tehran.

The Saudi air campaign against the Ansarullah fighters of the Houthi movement has also targeted the country’s infrastructure and residential areas after it started on March 26, without a United Nations mandate, in a bid to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

According to reports, some 2,800 people, including women and children, have lost their lives in the attacks so far.