Yemen Army Repels Attack by Saudi-Backed Militants near Border Area

TEHRAN (defapress) – Yemeni troops and fighters from popular groups foiled an infiltration attempt by Saudi-backed mercenaries in the border region of Jizan, a military source said.

News ID: 74051

Date: 01 December 2018 - 14:22

The mercenaries suffered serious losses after they attempted to sneak into Yemen’s soil from the direction of Djabal Jahfan, the source said, Saba news agency reported.

The militants were backed by Saudi Apache helicopter gunships, fighter jets, and reconnaissance aircraft, but failed to make progress in the raid after coming under heavy fire from the popular forces, the report said.

Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than three-and-a-half 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.

The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured until then. The war and the accompanying blockade have also caused famine across Yemen.

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