Yemeni Forces Advance towards Aden, Liberate District in Dali’ Province
Local Editor
The Yemeni army and popular committees loyal to the Ansarullah revolutionary movement advanced toward the southern city of Aden in Yemen, as they secured considerable gains in the region.
Meanwhile, the allied forces also took control of a strategic hilltop of al-Yaes which overlooks al-Anad airbase in Yemen’s southwestern Lahij province.
The airbase, located some 60 kilometers from Aden, fell to loyalists of fugitive former Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi in July following a lengthy offensive.
Houthi Ansarullah fighters, supported by allied army units, have also liberated a district in the southwestern part of the war-ravaged nation of Yemen.
Yemeni forces freed the district, which was controlled by forces loyal to Hadi in the southwestern province of Dali’ after fierce clashes with forces loyal to the fugitive former Yemeni president on Saturday.
Additionally, Ansarullah fighters have continued retaliatory attacks on Saudi positions both in sea and on the kingdom’s southern territories in retaliation for the seven-month-long aggression, which has killed thousands of people and displaced more than one million in the impoverished country 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 in a bid to restore power to Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [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.
