Aden, 06 Sha'ban,1439 AH, 22 April,2018 , SPA -- A senior leader of Iranian-backed Houthi militias was killed by Yemeni army fire in Masloub front, west of Al-Jawf province. A Yemeni field source said that the leader of the militia Khaled Mubarak Halasa code named (Abu Taleb) was killed after fierce fighting with the army in the front of Masloub. The source, in a statement carried on the website of the Yemeni armed forces on the Internet (September 26) said that Abu Taleb is the general supervisor of militias in the front and responsible for the planting of mines and explosive devices. -- SPA 11:36 LOCAL TIME 08:36 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w674094