Yemeni Forces Retaliate, Attack Saudi Posts: 50 Saudi Soldiers Killed

 

Local Editor

In further retaliation for US-led Saudi assaults, Yemeni forces have carried out retaliatory attacks against military bases that Saudi Arabia has set up in Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib and similar targets on Saudi soil.

 

According to local media reports on Wednesday, the Yemeni forces hit a Saudi base in Ma’rib, where at least 50 Saudi soldiers were killed.

The Yemeni army also attacked Saudi positions in the district of al-Khobe in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border province of Jizan. Five Saudi soldiers were killed in that strike, reports said.

A similar number of fatalities on the part of Saudi forces was also reported in the southwestern region of Asir in Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday morning, Saudi-led warplanes continued to carry out its aggression on Yemen by launching seven airstrikes against various areas in the city of Sirwah, located about 120 kilometers east of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.

Saudi-led warplanes also launched three airstrikes against the Abs district of Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah, though no reports about possible casualties and the extent of damage caused were available.

Also, Saudi aircraft bombed the military camp for the Yemeni Army’s 117th Brigade in the town of Mukayras in Yemen’s central province of Bayda.

 

Yemen has been under deadly military strikes by Saudi Arabia on a daily basis since March. 

On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies backed by the United States began to launch a military aggression against Yemen by launching air strikes against the country in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

 

 

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

As a result, the Yemeni army backed by popular committees and tribal fighters has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.