Local Editor

Members of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have reportedly managed to wrest complete control of a town in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Asir region on Tuesday.

The Yemeni forces seized control of al-Rabu’ah, forcing Saudi troops to pull out of the area on Tuesday, al-Masirah satellite television network reported.

The development came a day after fighters from the Houthi Ansarullah movement, backed by allied army units, carried out rocket attacks on several military bases in Asir region in retaliation for the Saudi-aggression on Yemen, and left four Saudi soldiers dead.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Monday that a Saudi border guard had been killed in the clashes with Yemeni forces.

The Yemeni developments came in retaliation for Saudi Arabia’s unabated aggression on Yemen.

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.