ADEN (Dispatches) – Nine Saudi-, and UAE-backed militants were killed in Yemen after the Sana’a-based government forces launched an overnight attack on sites of the militants in the northern province of al-Jawf, a military official said on Monday.
Heavy armed confrontations took place between the militants and the Ansarullah fighters in Abtar area and other adjacent areas bordering Saudi Arabia late on Sunday night, killing at least four militants and five mercenaries, the local military official said on condition of anonymity.
Ansarullah forces have stepped up their attacks on the militants stationed in the areas bordering Saudi Arabia in the past few weeks.
Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the U.S. and other Western states, launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015.
The objective was to crush the popular Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of a functional government in Yemen, and reinstall the Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
The Saudi-led coalition has failed to achieve any of its objectives, leaving hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and spawning the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.