SANAA: Gunmen have shot dead a Houthi militia commander in the Yemeni capital, as the militia came under attack elsewhere in the country, sources said Friday.

The men, on a motorbike, attacked low-ranking officer Ibrahim Hassan Al-Sharfi near his Sanaa home late Thursday before they fled. The Houthis’ Al-Masirah TV confirmed the attack. Al-Qaeda and Daesh have also carried out deadly attacks against the rebels.

Tribal sources told AFP gunmen also assaulted a Houthi checkpoint north of Sanaa, killing several people late Thursday. In the Shiite-populated Dhammar province, south of Sanaa, pro-government fighters attacked Houthi headquarters, killing five, tribal sources said.

Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes against a rebel-held army camp in Baida and hit their positions in oil-rich Marib province in Yemen’s east, witnesses said.

The news broke as the UN envoy for Yemen was due to go to Kuwait on Saturday, before spending a week each in Riyadh and Sanaa to discuss a draft peace proposal on Yemen “until we reach a preliminary agreement,” a UN spokesman said on Friday.

Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed intends to spend more time in the two capitals so as to discuss the draft principles paper developed in Geneva as he said ‘until we reach a preliminary agreement,’ UN spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said.