Sa'ada Archives - Iran News Daily

Saudi Spy Drone Downed over Sa’ada

reporter 1222 — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 07:32:55 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Yemen’s air defense units intercepted and targeted a Saudi-led spy drone over the northern province of Sa’ada.

The Yemeni troops shot down the Saudi drone as it was on a reconnaissance mission over the Razeh district in Sa’ada on Friday, Yemeni media reported.

The development came only one day after the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen unilaterally announced a two-week ceasefire in the Arab country.

The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement described the new ceasefire as just another ploy by the coalition to cover up the Riyadh regime’s crimes.

Mohammed Abdul-Salam added that the sensible decision for the Saudi-led coalition would be to stop the military aggression on Yemen and lift the crippling blockade.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power and crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past nearly five years.

The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.

The post Saudi Spy Drone Downed over Sa’ada appeared first on Iran News Daily.

Yemen target spy drone in Sa’ada

reporter 1222 — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 08:11:33 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Yemen air defense forces intercepted and targeted a Saudi-led spy drone in the northern province of Sa’ada.

According to Yemen’s al-Masirah television, the Yemen air defense forces intercepted and targeted a spy drone conducting surveillance for the coalition led by Saudi Arabia over the Razeh district of the northern province of Sa’ada on Monday.

Less than a week before, another unmanned aircraft with a similar mission was shot in the skies over the southern Saudi border region of Najran.

During the past few months, at least nine drones of the same type have been shot down.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies sought to bring the government of Yemen’s Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power and crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement when the coalition launched the campaign against Yemen in March 2015.

Nearly five years in, the coalition objectives have not been fulfilled.

The war has claimed more than 100,000 lives so far. That is according to estimates by the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization.

Earlier this month, Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from the Popular Committees, intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition while flying in the skies over Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Najran.

The post Yemen target spy drone in Sa’ada appeared first on Iran News Daily.

13 People Killed, Injured in Fresh Saudi Airstrikes on Yemen’s Sa’ada

reporter 1222 — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:41:22 +0000

At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed and injured when Saudi warplanes targeted an area of Yemen’s northern province of Sa’ada.

According to Yemen’s Saba news agency, the Saudi aerial aggression targeted residential areas in the Kataf district on Monday, killing four and injuring nine civilians there.

Since March 2015, the Saudi regime, together with a coalition of its allies, has been heavily bombarding Yemen as part of a brutal campaign against its impoverished southern neighbor. It has been attempting unsuccessfully to reinstall Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.

The Saudi campaign has killed at least 15,000 people since its onset. Furthermore, much of the country’s infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, and factories, has been reduced to rubble in the Saudi war.

The post 13 People Killed, Injured in Fresh Saudi Airstrikes on Yemen’s Sa’ada appeared first on Iran News Daily.