Emirati, Sudanese Troops Killed in Yemen’s Taiz
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Tens of mercenaries of Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi as well as troops from member states of a Saudi-led coalition were killed in attacks by the Yemeni army and popular committees in the Arabian Peninsula country’s southwestern province of Taiz.
Yemen’s Ministry of Defense announced that missile and rocket attacks launched by the army and popular committees in al-Makha area in Taiz resulted in the deaths of tens of Hadi mercenaries, Lebanon’s Arabic-language Al Mayadeen.
It added that a number of Sudanese and Emirati troops were among those killed in the strikes.
Also, severe clashes erupted between Yemeni forces and Hadi mercenaries around an air defense base in northwest of the province on Sunday morning after popular committees managed to repel an attack on the base by the mercenaries the previous night.
Elsewhere in Yemen, Saudi warplanes resumed bombing targets in the capital Sana’a and in the northern province of Sa’ada on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an unsuccessful attempt to reinstate the regime of Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Saudi Arabia, and to undermine Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement.
Some 11,000 Yemenis, including women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.
