At least 28 Huthi insurgents and 12 Yemeni soldiers were killed yesterday in the southern province of Shabwa as government forces pushed to capture a rebel enclave. <br/><br/>Military officials said, the fighting flared when forces loyal to President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi attacked rebels in Bayhan district, on the border between Shabwa and Marib provinces.<br/><br/>Bayhan is the only part of Shabwa province still controlled by the Iran-backed rebels after government forces supported by the Saudi-led Arab coalition last year expelled them from five southern provinces. <br/><br/>The Yemen conflict has killed some 7,000 people since the Saudi-led intervention in March 2015, according to the United Nations.