Local Editor

Saudi Arabia admitted on Tuesday that two Saudi soldiers have been captured by Houthi revolutionary forces as the US-led Saudi aggression continues unabated against Yemen. 

The spokesman for Saudi Arabia’s military aggression on Yemen, Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asseri, said in a statement that, "Two soldiers from the Saudi forces are missing after they lost their way inside Yemeni territory", adding that, "The evidence points to them being alive and detained by the Houthi ["]militias["]".

Meanwhile, three other Saudi soldiers are missing, Asseri said.

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.