Three Saudi Soldiers Killed Near Yemeni Border
SANAA (Press TV) – Three Saudi soldiers have been killed near border with Yemen in what is believed to be retaliatory attacks launched by Yemeni fighters on the kingdom.
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Saturday that one officer and two soldiers had been killed in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan region. However, it did not provide details about the circumstances surrounding the deaths.
Yemeni fighters regularly target positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliatory attacks against a protracted Saudi offensive on the import-dependent state.
Saudi Arabia launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall a Riyadh-backed former regime and eliminate the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been defending the country along with Yemeni armed forces.
The military aggression and a naval blockade have killed thousands of people and plunged Yemen into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Despite the dire situation in Yemen, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for more arms sales to the Saudi regime.
In an interview with al-Thawra newspaper on Saturday, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen, said the U.S. is preventing the war from coming to an end.
The U.S. is killing the Yemeni nation and sabotaging the peace process, he said, adding Trump is against peace as he believes that the war is necessary to sell arms to Saudi Arabia.
On Friday, Yemenis held protests in the provinces of Sana’a, Hudaydah and Ibb against Saudi and U.S. atrocities.
According to the al-Masirah TV channel, the demonstrators in Sana’a stressed that they will never surrender and foil the enemies’ plots.
They also called for the lifting of the Saudi siege on Sana’a airport and the resumption of flights.
In Hudaydah, protesters urged the UN to pressure Yemen’s warring sides into implementing the truce agreement reached in Sweden last December. They also denounced the Saudi blockade on Hudaydah’s al-Durayhimi district.
The demonstrators in Ibb, meanwhile, reiterated their support for Yemeni forces’ retaliatory attacks.
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Saturday that one officer and two soldiers had been killed in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan region. However, it did not provide details about the circumstances surrounding the deaths.
Yemeni fighters regularly target positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliatory attacks against a protracted Saudi offensive on the import-dependent state.
Saudi Arabia launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall a Riyadh-backed former regime and eliminate the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been defending the country along with Yemeni armed forces.
The military aggression and a naval blockade have killed thousands of people and plunged Yemen into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Despite the dire situation in Yemen, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for more arms sales to the Saudi regime.
In an interview with al-Thawra newspaper on Saturday, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen, said the U.S. is preventing the war from coming to an end.
The U.S. is killing the Yemeni nation and sabotaging the peace process, he said, adding Trump is against peace as he believes that the war is necessary to sell arms to Saudi Arabia.
On Friday, Yemenis held protests in the provinces of Sana’a, Hudaydah and Ibb against Saudi and U.S. atrocities.
According to the al-Masirah TV channel, the demonstrators in Sana’a stressed that they will never surrender and foil the enemies’ plots.
They also called for the lifting of the Saudi siege on Sana’a airport and the resumption of flights.
In Hudaydah, protesters urged the UN to pressure Yemen’s warring sides into implementing the truce agreement reached in Sweden last December. They also denounced the Saudi blockade on Hudaydah’s al-Durayhimi district.
The demonstrators in Ibb, meanwhile, reiterated their support for Yemeni forces’ retaliatory attacks.