Local Editor

Three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates [UAE] were killed while taking part in the Saudi-led military aggression on Yemen, according to UAE state news agency WAM on Saturday.

At least two other Emirati soldiers were killed in Yemen since the aggression began. The UAE has not given details on how they died.

Saudi Arabia and a coalition of some Arab states backed by the United States have been carrying out deadly airstrikes in Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

The US-led Saudi military aggression against Yemen began on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement which is currently responding to the attacks on the country.

The death toll of civilians has risen to at least 1,916, with another 4,186 civilians wounded since the escalation of the conflict in March, the United Nations [UN] recently said this week.