Local Editor

Yemen’s Army said it captured a number of Saudi soldiers during border clashes as Saudi Arabia continues with its US-led military aggression against Yemen, according to an announcement made on Friday. 

In an announcement on Friday, Army spokesman Sharaf Luqman said the Saudi forces were captured in the course of military confrontation along the Yemen-Saudi border. 

This is the first such announcement by the Yemeni Army since the beginning of the Saudi aggression against the impoverished country.

According to Yemeni reports, fighters with the Popular Committees including Houthi Ansarullah forces also launched an attack on Saudi Arabia’s southwesternmost Jizan Region, killing at least two Saudi soldiers.

The Yemeni army, backed by popular committees, has carried out several rocket attacks on Saudi military bases in response to Saudi Arabia’s deadly air raids against Yemen.

At least 30 Saudis have been killed since the Yemenis started their rocket and mortar raids on Saudi border areas early in May. Several tanks and armored vehicles belonging to the Saudi army were also destroyed in the offensives.

Saudi Arabia has intensified its aerial bombardment of different Yemeni cities ahead of the talks to take place in Geneva in Switzerland among Yemen’s political factions aimed at resolving the crisis in Yemen.

Most recently, a Saudi fighter targeted a university in the city of Dhamar in Yemen several times. Attacks on a public hospital in the Dhamar Province also left three people dead and several others injured.

Saudi Arabia’s US-led aggression on Yemen has not been endorsed by the UN. The world body has said that about 2,000 people have been killed and over 500,000 displaced as a result of the conflict in Yemen since March 19.