Yemen on Friday dismantled a sleeper cell of Houthi rebels that it said was planning to carry out attacks in the capital, Sanaa, the defense ministry reported on its website.
Four men were arrested in Sanaa on charges of forming a sleeper cell that was plotting to conduct "sabotage and criminal acts with the aim of
disturbing security and stability in the capital," the military-run 26 Sep website said.
The report did not identify the targets which the group was planning to attack.
According to the report, the four men hailed from Sahar directorate in the southern province of Saada, where government troops have been fighting
the Shiite Houthi rebels for months.
Security agencies also arrested four suspects in the capital on accusations of having links with the Houthi rebels, noted the report.
The Yemeni army launched an all-out offensive, dubbed " Operation Scorched Earth," on Aug. 11 against Houthi rebels who Sanaa says seek to
re-establish the clerical rule overthrown by the 1962 Yemeni revolution which yielded the republic.
The latest conflict between Yemeni government troops and the Shiite Houthi rebels in the northern province of Saada is the sixth of its kind since 2004.