Local Editor

Army troops and fighters from allied Popular Committees have targeted the positions of Saudi forces both inside Yemen and on Saudi soil, a Yemeni military source said, inflicting heavy losses on them in a new series of retaliatory attacks.

The Yemeni military source, whose name was not released in reports, said that army troops and fighters from allied Popular Committees destroyed a number of bases and arms depots used by Saudi forces in an area situated between Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib and al-Jawf Province in the north on Friday.

The attack left an unspecified number of Saudi military forces dead and injured, Yemen’s Saba news agency reported.

In a similar context, the Yemeni army foiled the advance of the Saudi military on the country’s southern region of At Tabab, killing three Saudi troops and detonating two Saudi armored vehicles loaded with explosives.

In addition, several Saudi soldiers were wounded in retaliatory rocket attacks on their base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern region of Jizan. Other bases in the Saudi region of Najran also came under retaliatory attacks by the Yemeni forces.

Elsewhere, Yemeni troops killed a number al-Qaeda militants and so-called "Daesh" ["ISIL"] extremists, destroying their hideouts in the Az Zahir dirstrict of the central al-Bayda province.

Yemeni forces seized weapons and military equipment from the extremists.

The Yemeni operations come as Saudi war jets continue to carry out deadly airstrikes in different areas across Yemen.

Saudi-led warplanes bombarded several areas in Yemen’s northwestern Sa’ada province more than 30 times, leaving several people dead or injured.

Homes were further destroyed in Saudi-led air raids on a district in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta’izz.

Saudi jets also targeted a military base in Yemen’s capital city, Sana’a, according to al-Masirah satellite television network.

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

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March 26. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].

The US-led Saudi aggression began in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the country’s fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

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.