Alwaght- Yemeni army attacked the pro-Saudi militant groups in the southwestern province of Taizz killing at least six of them, al-Masirah TV reported.
The operation backed by allied fighters from the Popular Committees was carried out in the Pasha Bear district of the province injuring two other militants.
Separately, Yemeni soldiers and Popular Committees fighters fired a locally-manufactured Zelzal-2 missile at a gathering of Saudi mercenaries in the Mefraq area of the country's northern province of al-Jawf, leaving scores of pro-Saudi gunmen dead and injured.
Yemeni soldiers and allied fighters also clashed with Saudi-backed militiamen in Asifrah neighborhood of Taizz, killing one of them.
Moreover, a number of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries lost their lives and sustained injuries when Yemeni forces repelled their assault against the Alab border crossing in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Asir.
The Saudi Arabia initiated a devastating war on Yemen to reinstate its ally Rabbah Mansur Hadi who resigned as Yemeni president and took refuge in Riyadh. The daily bombardment campaign has claimed 11,403 lives and left 19,343 others wounded, according to figures compiled by the Yemeni non-governmental monitoring group Legal Center for Rights and Development.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says 7.4 million Yemeni children are in dire need of medical help, and 370,000 run the risk of acute malnutrition.
