Saudi attrition on the border with Yemen ..markh the presence of "expensive"

Saudi attrition on the border with Yemen ..markh the presence of "expensive"



BAGHDAD (Reuters) -

The border between Saudi Arabia and its southern neighbor, Yemen, the front most Yemeni war in the drain for more than two years.

This front spin border battles in the rugged mountain chains, represent a password in the ability of any party to the other drain, once tried to progress.

In return for raids fighter jets, Saudi Arabia has been repulsed attacks from the rebels on the areas of "Najran" and "Jazan" and "Asir" border, backed by allied Yemeni forces at the borders of Saada, a stronghold of the Houthis, along with Sudanese troops in Midi, north-west of Yemen.

Include military tactics Houthis, according to their data, sniper Saudi soldiers, mine laying, next to their rocket attacks.

It highlighted again on this strip of 1470 kilometers, when the fighting intensified over the past month, leaving dozens of people dead.

Between May / last May 10 and June 13 the current 18 Saudi soldiers killed in border battles, including three officers, one of them a pilot and two of the rank of captain, according to official data published by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Among these facts, the funeral of the people "Samkh" center, south of the province of "Bisha", the body of Corporal Abdullah Saeed Aloahpa Shahrani, a staff of ground forces, on the tenth of May / May.

The next day, the funeral of the people of the center "Tbalh" west of the province of "Bisha", and a number of officials and employees of the armed forces, Corporal Obaid bin Mohammed Shamrani, who "died" also in the southern border of the kingdom.

On 22 May / May, it led the Governor of Taif designate Saad bin kissed McLovin, dead prayers on Sergeant Ali Abdullah Ali Al-Ghamdi, while the funeral on the same day the people of "Shuqairi" center "ligature" province Sergeant Ali Abdu Ebadi.

The latest deaths occurred, the first tired Ali Al-Qahtani, on June 13, following the explosion of a mine in a patrol of border guards in Jazan soldier, according to the Saudi Ministry of Interior.

On the other hand, exposed the Houthis and the forces of their ally, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, air raids more aggressive in the border strip than any other front.

The Houthis pay dozens of their fighters and Republican Guard forces loyal to Saleh, backed by dozens of snipers, part of their efforts to infiltrate Saudi territory, although this usually makes them easy targets for fighter jets and artillery other party.

Usually avoid Houthis announced their losses, but the pictures of their dead, scattered in a number of Yemeni governorates, which is where the notation place falls, shows that the border is the most front drain on them.

During the past few days, quoted the "march" channel of the Houthis, scenes from the funeral of dozens of fighters, from different provinces, were said to have fallen on the border.

According to unofficial statistics, published by Saudi activists, that the number of Huthi forces and Saleh who have fallen since the beginning of May / last May, at the southern border of the kingdom, more than 200 people dead.

According to activists, who publish the names of victims and their images based on the broadcasts "march" channel Al-Houthi from the funeral, that 128 of these victims, have fallen off Jazan borders, while 39 fell off Najran borders, and the rest of them off limits "Asir" and "Midi ".

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