Yemeni Forces Advance in Southern Province, Inflict Casualties on Aggressors

TEHRAN (defapress) – The forces of the Yemeni army and Popular Committees managed to take full control over more areas in the southern province of Shabwa and mounted deadly attacks on the Saudi regime’s mercenaries in other areas, media reports said on Monday.

News ID: 66469

Date: 16 October 2017 - 19:15

In a major operation, Yemeni troops captured two districts east of Asilan in Shabwa Province, the Arabic-language Al Mayadeen television network reported.

In another development, the army and Popular Committees killed or injured 13 mercenaries of the fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh, in the southwestern province of Taiz.

They also pounded the positions of the Saudi-led coalition in the kingdom’s southwestern region of Najran with Katyusha rockets, killing and injuring a number of the Saudi servicemen.

The attacks against the Saudi forces came in retaliation for the continued massacre of civilians and destruction of Yemen’s infrastructure by the coalition led by the Riyadh regime.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than two years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Over 12,000 Yemenis, including thousands of women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.