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A senior Yemeni commander said that the country’s army and popular forces are preparing to conduct special operations 50 kilometers deeper into the Saudi territory.
"The Yemeni forces have started a new round of special operations to seize back the remaining 35 percent of Ma’rib province as other units of the Yemeni army and popular forces are engaged in heavy fighting with the Saudi troops 50 kilometers deep inside the kingdom’s Najran province," Senior Ansarullah Commander Ali al-Houthi told FNA on Monday.
He said that Yemen’s popular forces have hit a Saudi convoy in Ma’rib province, killing 40 soldiers.
"Over 65 percent of Ma’rib province is under the Yemeni army and popular forces’ control and the pro-Saudi forces are now under their siege," al-Houthi added.
Al-Houthi said that the Yemeni forces are now pushing even deeper into Saudi Arabia.
Meantime, another Ansarullah commander named Majid Abdelnasser told FNA that the special Yemeni forces have taken vast areas of Najran under their control and a large number of Saudi troops have been killed in Najran province.
Also on Monday, the Yemeni army pounded a strategic military base in the kingdom’s Jizan province with home-made missiles.
Saudi Arabia’s al-Sababeh military base came under Yemen’s missile attacks, killing at least 20 Saudi soldiers.
The Yemeni popular forces, meantime, destroyed two armored vehicles of the Saudi army in Najran’s Rajla military base.
The Yemeni missile units pounded and destroyed a strategic Saudi military base in the kingdom’s Najran province on Monday.
The Saudis’ Rajla military base in Najran was destroyed by the Yemeni army’s home-made ballistic Zalzal-3 missile which was unveiled in July.
The attack also destroyed a number of tanks and military vehicles belonging to the Saudi forces, al-Masirah reported.
The Yemeni army has fired 13 ballistic missiles towards the Saudi military positions in Najran province since the beginning of July.
Last Saturday, the Yemeni Zelzal 3 missiles also pounded the Saudi Arabia’s Rajla military base in Najran province.
In late July, the Yemeni forces continued their attacks against the Saudi troops in the kingdom’s Southern parts, and killed several senior Saudi officers, including a top commander of the Saudi army’s 84th Division in the same area.
"The Yemeni army and popular forces fired missiles at Saudi tanks in Najran province, and killed the armored unit commander of the Saudi Army’s 84th Division who was also deputy commander of Rajla military base along with other senior Saudi forces," the Arabic-language media outlets quoted an unnamed military source as saying.
Also last month, the Yemeni army, backed by popular forces, fired a ballistic missile at a Saudi military base in the kingdom’s Jizan province in retaliation for Riyadh’s relentless attacks on Yemen’s civilians.
The Yemeni Tochka missile precisely hit the Saudi military base in the kingdom’s Ahad al-Mosareheh region in Jizan province.
The Saudi forces sustained heavy losses and casualties in the Yemen missile strike.
Yemen has been under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition since March 26.
Thousands have been killed and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the offensive on Yemen in a bid to allegedly restore power to fugitive president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.
