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Yemen update 12/02\2015.. Yemeni Forces Continuing Operations Deep into Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Warplanes Drop Cluster Bombs on Own Soil to Prevent Yemeni Forces’ Advances
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Saudi Arabia’s warplanes are targeting the Southern parts of the kingdom with cluster bombs in a bid to stop the Yemeni army and popular forces’ continued and rapid advance deep into their territories. Saudi Arabia has used cluster bombs many times before, but this is the first time that it is using it against its own population in a desperate move to stop the huge advances made by the Yemeni forces inside the kingdom in recent days.
The Yemeni army and popular forces have frequently crossed the border captured the Saudi military bases and outpost, ruined the military sites and returned home in the last few months and after the Riyadh-led coalition refrained from stopping its air raids on residential areas in Yemen’s cities. But, after months of coalition intensified air raids on civilian areas, the Yemeni forces changed strategy and warned that they would start ground assaults on Saudi territories to force Riyadh stop the massacre. The new strategy was put into effect on Sunday, when Yemen’s army and popular forces crossed the border and captured several key military bases in three provinces in Southern Saudi Arabia near the border.
The Yemeni forces seized Malhama, al-Radif and al-Mamoud military bases in Jizan, al-Rabou’a military base in Asir and Nahouqa military base in Najran provinces. Then on Monday, the Yemeni forces took control of three more Saudi military bases in al-Shurfa region in Najran. They also captured a military camp in Najran, and destroyed the military vehicles in there.
On Tuesday, the Saudi warplanes used banned cluster bombs against civilians in 5 airstrikes on residential areas in Yemen’s Hajjah province. Tens of people were killed and wounded in the air raids. Earlier today, the Yemeni army spokesman Sharaf Luqman said that the army and popular forces are advancing deep inside Saudi Arabia and capturing more military bases in the Southern parts of the kingdom. “The Yemeni forces have managed to inflict heavy losses on the Saudi enemy inside Saudi Arabia,” Luqman said. He reiterated that the Yemeni army and the popular forces are having high morale to fight the enemy, and said, “The military operation to capture new military bases of Saudi Arabia is underway.” Luqman said that the Saudi enemy has resorted to airstrikes which will surely fail.
Army Spokesman: Yemeni Forces Continuing Operations Deep into Saudi Arabia
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Yemeni army spokesman Sharaf Luqman said that the army and popular forces are advancing deep inside Saudi Arabia and capturing more military bases in the Southern parts of the kingdom. “The Yemeni forces have managed to inflict heavy losses on the Saudi enemy inside Saudi Arabia,” Luqman said. He reiterated that the Yemeni army and the popular forces are having high morale to fight the enemy, and said, “The military operation to capture new military bases of Saudi Arabia is underway.” Luqman said that the Saudi enemy has resorted to airstrikes which will surely fail.
On Monday, the Yemeni army and popular committees took control of several more military bases in the Saudi Province of Najran after they captured several strategic military centers in three Saudi provinces on Sunday night. The Yemeni army and popular committees captured three Saudi military bases in al-Shurfa area in Najran. Earlier reports said the Yemeni forces took control of a military camp in the Saudi border region of Najran, destroying six military vehicles. Sources also said the Yemeni forces destroyed 2 Abrams tanks, 3 Bradley armored vehicles and 3 bulldozers in Najran province.
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Iranian Navy’s 37th Flotilla Off to Gulf of Aden
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The Iranian Navy’s 37th fleet of warships left Bandar Abbas port, in Southern Hormuzgan province, for the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday to protect the country’s cargo ships and oil tankers against pirate attacks. The Navy’s 37th fleet, comprising Sabalan destroyer and Tonb logistic warship, is tasked to conduct anti-piracy patrols in the high seas and the Gulf of Aden. The Iranian navy overhauled Tonb logistics warship to send it to this mission. The 36th flotilla of warships, comprised of Jamaran destroyer and Bushehr logistic and helicopter-carrier warship, returned to Iran on Monday after a 76-day voyage in the high seas. The Iranian Navy’s 36th flotilla of warships left Bandar Abbas port, in Southern Hormuzgan province, for the Gulf of Aden in late September to protect the country’s vessels.
The Navy’s 36th fleet, comprising Jamaran destroyer and Bushehr logistic and helicopter-carrier warship, was conducting anti-piracy patrols in the high seas and Gulf of Aden. The Iranian Navy has been conducting anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008, when Somali raiders hijacked the Iranian-chartered cargo ship, MV Delight, off the coast of Yemen. According to UN Security Council resolutions, different countries can send their warships to the Gulf of Aden and coastal waters of Somalia against the pirates and even with prior notice to Somali government enter the territorial waters of that country in pursuit of Somali sea pirates. The Gulf of Aden – which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea – is an important energy corridor, particularly because Persian Gulf oil is shipped to the West via the Suez Canal.
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