Local Editor
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement on Wednesday captured 20 military positions inside Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Najran province.
Speaking to Yemen’s SABA news agency, Yemeni army spokesperson Yahya Sarei said the sites were captured in a “surprise” offensive carried out over the last 72 hours.
Earlier Wednesday, Al-Masirah television channel reported that Houthi fighters had launched multiple attacks on several Saudi military positions in Najran, which is located adjacent to the Yemeni border.
According to Sarei, Houthi fighters overwhelmed the positions in a “surprise attack carried out along three separate axes”.
The spokesman added that more than 200 personnel affiliated with a Saudi-led military coalition had been killed or wounded, while numerous others were captured along with large quantities of military equipment.
“We have extensive video footage of the operation which will be broadcast later,” Sarei was quoted as saying.
Yemen has been wracked by violence since 2014. The conflict escalated in 2015 when Saudi Arabia and its Sunni-Arab allies launched a massive air campaign in Yemen aimed at forcefully reinstating the resigned regime of former Presiden Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
