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Army of Yemen Retakes Strategic Area in Ma’rib

reporter 1222 — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:21:11 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The army forces of Yemen stepped up their attacks against Saudi-backed militants in Ma’rib, managing to recapture a strategic area in the central province.

Yemeni army troops, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, established full control over the region of al-Sadara, which is a connecting route to Southern areas of Ma’rib.

The Yemeni army has sent thousands of fighters to the province over the past couple of weeks to expel forces loyal to the ex-government.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia has been conducting a bloody military aggression in Yemen with help from its regional allies, and using arms supplied by its Western backers. The aim of the war has been to bring Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and defeat the Houthi Ansarullah movement.

Yemeni armed forces have been boosting their military capabilities and responding to the attacks using domestic missiles and drones, and targeting sensitive oil installations and military sites deep inside the Saudi territory.

Since 2015, over 100,000 people have been killed, according to the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).

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Yemen Army Shoots Saudi Drone over Hudaydah

reporter 1222 — Wed, 20 May 2020 13:04:51 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Yemen army forces shot down a Saudi spy drone over the country’s western coastal province of Hudaydah.

Yemeni air defense forces downed the drone with a surface-to-air missile as it was on a reconnaissance mission over Kilo 16 district of the province, located around 230 kilometers west of the capital Sana’a, on Tuesday, an unnamed Yemeni military official said.

The source added that the Saudi-backed militants shelled residential areas in the south of Hudaydah several times, breaching a self-declared truth recently announced by the Saudi-led coalition.

With the arrival of the holy month of Ramadan, the Saudi-led military coalition waging war on Yemen decided to “extend the ceasefire for a month,” according to its spokesman Turki al-Maliki.

The chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, has dismissed the Saudi-led coalition’s extension of the unilateral ceasefire in the war-ravaged Arab country by one month, saying Yemenis are expecting serious actions rather than words, which are simply media maneuver.

The Saudi-led coalition invaded Yemen in 2015. Since then, over 100,000 people have been killed, according to the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).

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Yemen Army Repels Militant Attack near Najran

reporter 1222 — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:19:46 +0000

Yemen’s army, backed by fighters from revolutionary committees, foiled an infiltration attempt by Saudi-backed mercenaries on Yemen’s soil near the border region of Najran.

Yemeni troops on Wednesday pushed back militants as they attempted to sneak into Rashaha Gharbian area from a district in Najran, a military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Saba news agency.

During the counterattack, the troops managed to inflict major losses on them despite heavy aerial cover by the Saudi warplanes, the source added.

In a separate development in the southern region of Jizan, the Yemeni army killed five Saudi soldiers after shelling their gatherings in Aeen Hara camp.

The attacks against the Saudi-led forces came in retaliation for the continued massacre of civilians and destruction of Yemen’s infrastructure by the coalition led by Riyadh.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for nearly four years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured until then. The war and the accompanying blockade have also caused famine across Yemen.

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