Alwaght- Yemeni army forces, backed by Ansarullah fighters and local allies, have shot dead four Saudi troopers in the kingdom’s southwestern border regions of Asir and Jizan, in retaliation for the Saudi regime’s brutal aggression on the war-torn country.
Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported that Yemeni forces shot and killed three troops at Sahwa military base of Asir on Saturday afternoon.
Yemeni forces and their allies also targeted another Saudi trooper in al-Khobe district of Jizan, located 966 kilometers south of the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Separately, Yemeni army soldiers and Popular Committees fighters killed six Saudi-backed militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in the al-Matun district of Yemen’s northern province of al-Jawf.
Elsewhere in the Nihm district of the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa’ada, Yemeni army soldiers and their allies launched an attack against Saudi mercenaries, leaving scores of them dead or injured. Two vehicles belonging to the Saudi-sponsored forces were destroyed as well.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Nearly 14,000 Yemenis, mostly women, children and the elderly, have been killed since the onset of Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against the impoverished state. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war. The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic and famine across Yemen.
