RIYADH–A Saudi-led Sunni coalition air strike last week killed the top civilian leader in the armed Iran-backed Houthi Shiite rebel movement in Yemen, the Houthis reported on Monday. Saleh al-Samad is the most senior official to be killed by the Western-backed alliance in the three-year-old war.
Samad held the post of president in the Houthi-backed political body which runs most of northern Yemen.
