Alwaght-Yemeni Military, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have targeted a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southern Najran region, killing six Saudi troops.
According to the Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, during the Thursday retaliatory attack, Yemeni missile hit the al-Shabakah base.
Yemeni forces carried out a similar attack on the al-Farizah military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan region, which set the post on fire, the report added.
The Yemeni forces have recently stepped up their retaliatory assaults against Riyadh’s deadly war on the impoverished country.
Separately on Thursday, a Yemeni military source reported intense clashes between militants loyal to former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, and Houthi Ansarullah fighters in the Sirwah district of the central Ma’rib Province.
Six pro-Hadi militants and 14 Houthi fighters lost their lives in the clashes over the past 24 hours, the source added.
Yemen’s Khabar news agency said a high-ranking pro-Hadi commander was among the casualties of the Ma’rib scuffles. Other reports said dozens of Saudi mercenaries had been killed in the clashes.
Saudi Arabia backed by the US and some despotic regional regimes launched its deadly campaign against Yemen in March 2015 to push back Ansarullah fighters from Sana’a and to bring back to power Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen's president who has resigned and is a staunch ally of Riyadh.
The brutal aggression has so far claimed the lives of over 13,000 Yemenis mostly civilians including women and children.
The Saudi military aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, markets schools, mosques and factories.
