UAE: 22 ’Emirati’ Soldiers Killed in Yemen as Part of Saudi-led Coalition
Local Editor
Twenty-two soldiers from the United Arab Emirates [UAE] were killed in Yemen while taking part in the Saudi-led aggression against Ansarullah in Yemen, according to the UAE state news agency WAM on Friday.
The Ansarullah said that they fired a rocket at a weapons cache in a camp used by Gulf coalition forces in the central Marib area in Yemen, killing dozens of Emirati and Yemeni soldiers and destroying a number of Apache helicopters and armed vehicles.
Yemeni Military Media sources said: "On Friday morning, the Yemeni army, backed by the popular committees, fired a Toshka ballistic missile on a Saudi-led military gathering and a camp in Safer in the eastern province of Marib".
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.
