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Yemeni forces shoot down two Saudi-led spy drones in Jizan

Tuesday, 21 August 2018 1:02 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 21 August 2018 1:06 PM ]

The photo released by the Yemeni al-Masirah TV shows parts of a Saudi-led reconnaissance drone shot down by Yemeni forces on the Saudi side of the border on March 14, 2018.

Yemeni air defense units have shot down two Saudi-led reconnaissance drones in flight over a border area in the kingdom’s southwestern province of Jizan.

Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network, citing an unnamed military source, reported that the drones were shot down over the province’s Jabal al-Doud area on Tuesday.

On July 27, Yemeni forces managed to shoot down another Saudi-led spy drone in the kingdom’s southern province of Asir, less than a week after destroying a similar drone in Saudi Arabia’s southern province of Najran.

Some 20 spy drones have been shot down since the Saudi war on the impoverished country began over three years ago.

PressTV-Yemeni army downs Saudi spy drone in Asir

Yemeni army forces have shot down a Saudi-led reconnaissance drone in a border area in the kingdom’s southern region of Asir.

Additionally on Tuesday, Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, managed to kill a number of Saudi-led mercenaries in the eastern parts of Jabal al-Doud, seizing some weapons and ammunition.

Al-Masirah reported that there were some Sudanese servicemen among the mercenaries.

Saudi Arabia and some of its allies, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Sudan, launched a brutal war, code-named Operation Decisive Storm, against Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen’s former president and a staunch ally of Riyadh, and crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.

The movement, which is a significant aid to the Yemeni army in defending the country against the invading forces, has been running state affairs in the absence of an effective administration during the past three years.

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The imposed war initially consisted of a bombing campaign but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment of ground forces into Yemen.

Some 15,000 Yemenis have been killed and thousands more injured since the onset of the Saudi-led aggression.

The Saudi-led aggression has also taken a heavy toll on the country's infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, schools, and factories. The United Nations has already said that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.

Several Western countries, the United States and Britain in particular, are also accused of being complicit in the ongoing aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime with advanced weapons and military equipment as well as logistical and intelligence assistance.

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