Local Editor

Dozens of Saudi troops have been killed in an ambush by Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionary fighters at the al-Omari camp north of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait off Yemen’s coast.

According to Yemeni media reports, a senior Saudi commander was also killed in the retaliatory attack on Monday.

Additionally, a large number of Saudi forces were injured and their vehicles were put on fire during the operation.

Saudi military officials have meanwhile made no comments on the reports so far.

Scores of Saudi and foreign soldiers have so far been killed by Ansarullah fighters, backed by allied army units, in their retaliatory attacks as Saudi-led assaults continue against Yemen.

The country has been under relentless attacks by a Saudi-led coalition since late March. 

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 in a bid to restore power to fugitive former Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].

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.