Yemen: More than 140 Houthi rebels killed in Saudi bombing raid

The military alliance led by Saudi Arabia, which intervened in the 2015 war in Yemen, announced Sunday night that 138 Shiite Houthi rebels had been killed in airstrikes in the past 24 hours in the strategically important northern province of Marib. of the internationally recognized government in the region, where hostilities have been raging for months.

For about a month, the Riyadh alliance has announced almost daily that it has inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels with its air strikes; however, its reports can not be confirmed by independent sources; their losses. The losses do not seem to be preventing the guerrillas from advancing.

The alliance supports from the air, often in close proximity, the forces that declare allegiance to the internationally recognized government and try to repel the Houthis. Shiite rebels have been fighting since February to seize the city and the oil-rich province of Marib, the last out of control in the north of the war-torn country.

“17 military vehicles were destroyed and 138 terrorists were killed” in the bombings in the past 24 hours in Al Juba (south of Marib) and Al Qassara (north), the alliance said in a statement broadcast by the official Saudi news agency. Saudi Arabia uses the term “terrorists” when referring to Shiite rebels close to Iran, its main rival in the region.

The conflict of more than seven years in the poorest country of the Arabian Peninsula has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, the vast majority of civilians, and displaced millions more, according to international aid organizations. According to the UN, the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world is unfolding in Yemen in recent years.

Source: AMPE