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Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters have gained ground against Saudi mercenaries in the country’s southwestern Lahij Province.
On Tuesday, the fighters wrested control of the Jales Mountain near the al-And military base, which is under the control of Saudi mercenaries, in the province and are moving toward the base.
The Houthis also fired Uragan rockets at pockets of the mercenaries in the Tadaween base in the west of the Ma’rib Province in west-central Yemen, using Katyusha rocket launchers.
Ansarullah has been defending Yemen, the Arab world’s most impoverished country, against a deadly Saudi invasion, which the kingdom launched in March 2015 to restore power to Yemen’s former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, an ally of Riyadh.
More than 9,400 people have been killed and at least 16,000 others injured since the onset of the aggression.
Earlier in the month, the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen was placed on a United Nations (UN) blacklist of countries that kill and maim children. The move came after an expert report found Riyadh responsible for 60 percent of the 785 children killed in Yemen last year.
Soon afterwards, the invading coalition was temporarily removed from the blacklist pending a review demanded by Riyadh. Later, however, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the decision was made under "undue pressure" from Saudi Arabia, which diplomats revealed had threatened the world body with cutting funding.
On Wednesday, Ban is to meet with Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at UN headquarters in New York, according to the secretary general’s deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
