Some 200 pro-government fighters were killed in
Yemen and more than 1,000 taken prisoner in an August offensive near the Saudi border by the Iran-backed Huthi rebels, a loyalist source and the rebels said Sunday.
The Huthis, who are fighting a Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen's long-running conflict, had claimed a mass capture of Saudi forces in the offensive, but a press conference on Sunday was short on proof.
The Yemeni government source confirmed to AFP that some 200 soldiers were killed in the attack.