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Iran-allied Houthi militiamen pushed into the northeastern suburbs of the Yemeni port city of Aden Monday amid heavy clashes with loyalists of President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi, sources on both sides said, The Daily Star reported, citing news agencies.

Artillery and rocket fire struck the area around the Alam roundabout near the city's airport, Hadi's fighters said, after the Houthis advanced along an Arabian Sea coast road.

Aden is Hadi's last bastion of control in Yemen and remains besieged despite a fifth day of Saudi-led air trikes aimed at checking the Houthi advance.

Arab coalition warplanes had ramped up pressure on the Houthis with a fifth night of airstrikes.

The Saudi-led Sunni Arab coalition has vowed to keep up the raids until the rebels abandon their insurrection against Hadi, who has fled to Riyadh.

Fighter jets roared in the skies above Sanaa from 9 p.m. until around 5:30 a.m. Monday, an AFP correspondent reported.

Positions held by the Houthi rebels and soldiers of the renegade Republican Guard overlooking the presidential palace were believed to have been targeted.

A Republican Guard camp in south Sanaa was also hit, witnesses said.