Safer: Gulf Arab coalition forces fighting Houthi militia in Yemen are advancing on the capital in a two-pronged offensive, generals declared at a desert oil compound they have turned into a military base.

Yemeni forces and their Arab allies are fighting to oust the Iranian-alled Houthis in a six-month war that has killed more than 4500 people and brought the country to the brink of famine.

An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition at a weapons depot in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday. Credit:AP

Speaking a day after Yemen's exiled government pulled out of UN-mediated talks, Yemeni General Abed-Rabbu Qassem al-Shaddadi said: "We hope people make a compromise before what's left of Yemen is destroyed."