Yemeni Forces’ Op Kills 70 ’Saudi-backed’ Militants in Yemen’s Abyan Province
Local Editor
At least 70 Saudi-backed militants were killed in an operation by the Yemeni army backed by popular committees on their hideouts in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan.
Meanwhile three soldiers from the United Arab Emirates [UAE] were killed while taking part in the Saudi-led military aggression on Yemen, according to UAE state news agency WAM on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia and a coalition of some Arab states backed by the United States have been carrying out deadly airstrikes in Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.
The US-led Saudi military aggression against Yemen began on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to restore power to the country’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement which is currently responding to the attacks on the country.
