19 Apr 2024
Saturday 19 September 2015 - 22:54
Story Code : 181035

Yemen army attacks Saudi base in Aseer, captures several soldiers

The Yemeni army, with the support of the popular committees, has managed to hit a Saudi military base in Saudi Arabias southwestern province of Aseer, taking several soldiers captive.

In a video released by Yemen's al-Masirah television network on Saturday, the Yemeni forces are seen engaging the Saudi soldiers in the region, destroying their vehicles.

Yemeni media recently broadcast video footage of one of the Saudi soldiers who were arrested by the Yemeni army during clashes on the border with Saudi Arabia.

Expressing his gratitude for the Yemeni military for their nice treatment, the Saudi soldier, identified as Ibrahim Arraj Mohammed Hakami of the Fourth Battalion, First Brigade, based in Jizan, urged the regime in Riyadh to end its deadly aggression against Yemen.

The Saudi army and the Defense Ministry should stop this war which is of no benefit but the destruction and killing of our brothers in Yemen, he said in the video, Lebanons al-Manar reported.

The capture of thetroops is part of retaliatory measuresagainstSaudi Arabia by Yemeni forces overRiyadh's relentlessaggression againstits impoverished neighbor.

Also on Saturday, the Arabical-Mayadeen news channel reported that five Saudi troops had been killed in a rocket attack by Yemeni forcesin the al-Masfaq region of the kingdom's southwestern Jizan Province.



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] Yemenis walk amid the rubble of a destroyed house following Saudi airstrikes on September 16, 2015 in the capital, Sanaa. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]

Six months of attacks

Saudi Arabia beganits military aggression against Yemen on March 26 without a UN mandate in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former Yemeni PresidentAbd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh.

The conflict has so far left about 5,200 people dead and thousands of others wounded, the UN says. Local Yemeni sources, however, say the fatality figure is much higher.

In their latest airstrikes, Saudi warplanes targeted sites in the northern provinces of Saada and Hajjah.

Three more civilians were also killed in Saudi Arabias airstrike on a house in the Majzar district of Yemens Ma'rib Province.

By Press TV
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