Houthi fighters say that they have managed to repulse an attack which was launched by the Saudi Arabian army into northern Yemen. According to Lebanon’s Al-Manar television network, Houthi fighters said in a statement that they repulsed Saudi Arabia’s attack in the Jebel Dhar al-Hamar region and the villages around it on Friday. According to [...]
Houthis ‘seize 3 Yemeni bases in north’
Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have managed to capture three military bases after fierce fighting with the government forces near the northern city of Sa’ada. The fighters released a statement on Monday, saying that they had seized the military bases after a long battle with Yemeni forces, prompting them to launch attacks against civilians [...]
Saudi jets pound northern Yemen
The Houthi fighters in Yemen say Saudi warplanes have carried out several airstrikes on the country’s beleaguered northern areas, leaving a child dead. According to the fighters, the warplanes targeted more than 20 villages in Sa’ada province on Friday. The fighters also reported that they have repelled an incursion by Saudi troops in an area [...]
Iran raps US military solution to Yemen crisis
Amid the US and Saudi jet fighters massacre of civilians in northern parts of Yemen, Iran slams the use of military action as the solution to the ongoing conflict in the war-stricken Arab country. “Iran is unhappy with the ongoing situation in Yemen. It is the murdering of Muslim brothers,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin [...]
Fresh Saudi blitz kills 13 civilians in Yemen
At least 13 civilians have lost their lives in a series of air strikes by Saudi military air planes along the border between Yemen and the oil-rich kingdom, Houthi fighters say. The Saudi Air Force continued to bomb along the Yemeni-Saudi border, including the Jebel al-Dukhan, Jebel al-Rumayh, Jebel al-Madoud, al-Jabiri as well as other [...]
Fresh air raids kill civilians in northern Yemen
Several people have reportedly been killed in a series of airstrikes by unknown warplanes in the northern Yemeni region of Sa’ada. The residence of the mayor of Sa’ada was damaged in the air raid. Yemen’s Houthi fighters accuse the United States and neighboring Saudi Arabia of carrying out airstrikes, saying the attacks target only civilians [...]
Iran warns against meddling in Yemen affairs
The Islamic Republic of Iran says that no state has the right to interfere in Yemen’s internal affairs as the country’s crisis in the north has been claiming the lives many people. Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, in a joint press conference with his Sudanese counterpart Deng Alor in Khartoum, said that all countries should [...]
Houthis say they dealt heavy blow to Saudi army
Houthi fighters say they have dismantled a Saudi army regiment, killed several soldiers destroyed an army tank as the regiment attempted to cross the border into northern Yemen. The Saudi military’s push towards Mount Mamdouh failed, the Houthis said on Tuesday, adding that the Saudi army received the heavy blow after a string of hour-long [...]
Saudis to reward kin of soldiers killed in Yemen
Saudi King Abdullah has reportedly signed a state decree rewarding families of the soldiers killed in raids on Houthi resistance fighters in Yemen. The Saudi king’s latest directive requires the government to award a medal of honor and a sum of USD 266,000 to each family of soldiers killed in cross-border assaults against the Houthi [...]
Jordanian commandos join war on Houthi fighters
Jordanian commandos have recently joined the state-led and Saudi-aided offensives against the Houthi fighters in northwestern Yemen, reports say. The Arab-language daily Sada-Najdhejaz reported on Saturday that the commandos, enlisted with the Jordanian military’s crack forces, had joined the fight in the northern Mount Al-Dukhan. The military contribution was enabled by Saudi Arabia, which received [...]
In Yemen, Houthis ‘capture strategic altitudes’
The Houthi fighters have reportedly seized control of three mountains in a move that could give them notable strategic upper hand. The fighters conquered Mounts Al-Dukhan, Al-Ramih and Al-Doud on Saturday, the Yemeni news outlet Shamar Press reported. The fighters’ new positions will allow them to take the Saudi and Yemeni movements under scrutiny and [...]
Saudi missiles hit Yemen border areas
Houthi fighters say Saudi Arabia fired scores of missiles on Yemeni villages during over a dozen overnight airstrikes. More than 145 missiles have been shot at Yemini towns in over 15 separate attacks on areas near the border with Saudi Arabia, the Muslim movement said on Thursday. Saudi forces have been carrying out attacks on [...]
Saudi imposes naval blockade on northern Yemen
Saudi Arabia has imposed a naval blockade on northern Yemen’s Red Sea coast amid its offensive on Houthi fighters in the mountainous region. A Saudi government adviser said on Wednesday that the blockade was imposed to stop weapons from reaching the fighters, Reuters reported. The adviser said earlier that Saudi warships were ordered to search [...]
Continued Saudi air attacks kill 40 Houthis
More than forty Yemeni Muslim fighters have been killed in the fresh Saudi Arabia’s air attacks on the northern Yemen fighters holding territory in the border region. The fighters were killed in the remote mountainous regions of Malahit and Maran in Saada province. The Saudi military said the attacks were in response to an earlier [...]
Houthis inflict ‘heavy damage’ on Yemeni army
Houthi fighters in Yemen claim they have inflicted heavy defeat on army forces in the outskirts of the northern city of Sa’ada as the government continues its offensive against the fighters. In a statement released Sunday, the fighters said they have seized a government military camp in Sa’daa and left several soldiers dead and many [...]
