SANA’A (Dispatches) – Yemeni forces say they have downed a drone made in the U.S. flying over the country’s skies.
The Spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree said, “Our air defense forces managed to shoot down an American reconnaissance drone of the ScanEagle type, using a surface-to-air missile.”
According to the report, the UAV was hit in the Sirvah region of the northern province of Ma’rib, where Yemeni forces and Saudi-backed militants supporting former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi are fighting. Yemeni forces are close to reclaiming the area.
Popular forces have had a crucial role in repelling mercenaries and militants from a big chunk of the region.

‘UN Mouthpiece for
Aggressors’

In another development, the Ansarullah movement slammed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s decision to add the resistance movement to its annual blacklist of parties violating children’s rights, describing the measure as ‘disgraceful’.
Ansarullah’s political bureau announced in a statement on Saturday night that “Guterres’s move produced convincing proof that the UN is simply a worthless platform exploited by major powers to distort facts and confiscate the rights of oppressed nations.”
“The United Nations would better remain neutral, and not act as a mouthpiece for the coalition of aggressors and repeat their nonsense and ridiculous statements,” it noted.
Ansarullah’s inclusion in the blacklist of states and groups that violate children’s rights is “unjust, invalid and disconnected from real-world facts”, the statement said.
“The United Nations severed its ties with our nation and sided with the aggressor coalition by such a classification,” it added.
Ansarullah touched on thousands of videos that have shown horrific massacres of Yemeni children by Saudi Arabia over the past years.
“If the UN Secretary-General has an iota of humanity, he should not seek a second term in office than to sell his conscience at a cheap price. Yemeni children know who is killing them with planes and blockades,” the statement said.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with al-Masirah television network on Friday, Ansarullah spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam also censured the UN decision.
“The UN is acting in favor of major powers, and exhibits clear bias. The aggressor countries are committing the most heinous crimes against Yemeni children, and yet they were not included in the list,” he said.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the U.S. and regional allies, launched a devastating war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president back to power and crushing Ansarullah.