Al Jazeera, November 8

The president of Yemen has ruled out a truce in the escalating conflict with Houthi fighters in the north.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, said on Saturday that the military would not relax their attacks on the Houthis "until we bring this tyrannical, traitorous and mercenary group to an end.

"The war just started two days ago, and what has been happening in the past six years was just ... training for the army units," he said.

"The war will never stop no matter how much money or martyrs it costs."

PressTV, November 8

Yemen's Houthi fighters say they have shot down a fighter jet during clashes with government forces in north-western Yemen.

"Our anti-aircraft batteries shot down a military plane, which carried out bombings in the city of Razeh, near the border with Saudi Arabia," Abdessalam Mohammad, a spokesman for the fighters, told AFP.

This is while, the Yemeni military said the plane crashed due to technical problems.

The Sukhoi plane crashed during a raid on suspected strongholds of the Houthi fighters in north-western Yemen, Colonel Askar Zuail on Sunday, a military commander in the north-western Yemeni province of Saada, told DPA by telephone.

He added that the "plane crashed due to a technical malfunction. The pilot ejected and landed safely."