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Yemen update 12/19\2015.. warring sides continue peace talks in Switzerland
19.12.2015 Yemen Crisis News
SOUTH FRONT
Yemeni forces kill 120 Saudi forces in ballistic missile strike
Saudi Arabia continues its deadly airstrikes on Yemen violating a recent UN brokered ceasefire.
The latest Saudi air raids targeted Sa’ada province killing at least 23 people. The attacks indicate that Riyadh has refused to comply with the terms of the ceasefire reached in Switzerland on Tuesday. Elsewhere, forces loyal to the former Yemeni regime, seized the city of Hazm, the capital of Jawf province. In response, Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and allied army units fired a missile at a Saudi base in Ma’rib province killing at least 120 Saudi troops and their mercenaries. Earlier, Yemenis fired ballistic missiles at a Saudi military installation in the Najran region inside the kingdom.
The Saudi-led Coalition Forces and pro-Hadi militias suffered another devastating blow when a Tochka ballistic missile hit their camp in the province of Ma’rib, and killed over 180 troops, including Saudi and UAE officers.
An ammunition depot and two Apache helicopters of the pro-Saudi aggressors were also destroyed in the Yemeni ballistic missile strikes in Southern Yemen.
At least 180 Saudi and UAE military men as well as forces loyal to the former fugitive president Mansour Hadi were killed in the attack on Saudi-led forces’ military camp in the Ma’rib province.
Also on Friday, the Yemeni army and popular forces conducted several retaliatory missile attacks against Saudi Arabia’s Key military bases and positions in Jizan province, inflicting heavy losses on the kingdom’s forces.
Yemen’s Tochka ballistic missiles hit the Saudi army’s gathering centers in Jizan province yesterday.
The Yemeni forces also fired a Qaher-I missile at Saudi forces’ bases in Najran on Friday.
The missile attacks came in response to the violation of truce by the Saudi bomb strikes.
On Tuesday, the Yemeni missiles destroyed the command center of Saudi border guards in Asir province.
Meantime, the Yemeni missiles hit the Saudi governmental buildings in al-Rabou’a region of Asir province.
The Yemeni army also fired 52 rockets at the border regions of Alab, al-Sheibani, al-Hazar and al-Thurein in Asir province.
On Monday, Yemeni forces hit Jizan airport in Southern Saudi Arabia with their new surface-to-surface ballistic missiles.
“The Qaher-I missile precisely hit the target, the Jizan airport; the third such missile used in the past 24 hours to target military positions in Southern Saudi Arabia,” Yemeni military sources told FNA.
The first Qaher-I ballistic missiles targeted Khalid bin Abdulaziz air base in Asir province in Southwestern Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
The second ballistic missile hit the Saudi-led coalition’s command headquarters in Sha’ab al-Jen region near Bab al-Mandeb in Ta’iz province. Over 150 coalition servicemen, including 23 Saudi troops, 9 UAE officers and soldiers, seven Moroccan officers and 42 Blackwater troops were killed in the second attack.
Qaher-I is an updated version of a Russian-made surface-to-surface missile.
The burnt bodies of 146 Saudi-led military troops have been transferred to the city of Aden and Saudi Arabia has sent a warship to Ta’iz to transfer the wounded from Bab al-Mandeb region.
The Saudi-led forces sustained heavy casualties in the Yemeni army’s missile attack on the Bab al-Mandeb region in Southwestern Yemen.
Last Friday, the Yemeni army and popular forces conducted several retaliatory attacks against key military bases and positions in two Saudi provinces, inflicting heavy losses on the kingdom’s forces.
Yemeni forces fired 13 missiles at al-Jamarak region in the Saudi province of Jizan, killing at least two Saudi military men.
On December 9, the Yemeni forces launched missile attacks on the Saudi military bases in Jizan province with their new home-made missiles named ‘Cry’.
The Yemeni missiles destroyed al-Ain al-Harreh and al-Salah military bases in Jizan province, inflicting heavy losses on the Saudi army.
The Yemeni army and popular forces also hit al-Ramzeh military center in Jizan province, killing tens of Saudi military men and their vehicles.
The Yemeni forces also hit several Saudi military centers in the Southern parts of Al-Khuba region.
On December 5, the Yemeni army and popular forces destroyed a large number of military posts and centers in three provinces in Southern Saudi Arabia.
The Yemeni forces’ missile and artillery fire has destroyed tens of Saudi military sites in Najran, Jizan and Asir provinces in the last three days.
A large number of Saudi troops have been killed and many more wounded in the Yemeni forces’ retaliatory attacks on their positions.
Also on December 5, FNA dispatches said that the Yemeni army and popular forces continued their nonstop advances on the Saudi soil and seized several military bases and sites in Saudi Arabia’s Southern provinces after heavy clashes with the kingdom’s troops.
The Yemeni forces captured a number of Saudi military bases in Jizan province, Yemeni Army Commander Ebrahim Moussa al-Hamdani told FNA.
Al-Hamdani noted that the army and popular forces also seized the Riyadh government’s strategic military positions in Najran province after several hours of clashes with the Saudi forces, seizing heavy machinery and a large cache of weapons and military tools, including mortar-launchers.
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Yemen’s warring sides continue peace talks in Switzerland
Yemeni factions agree to set up ceasefire committee
Yemen’s warring sides have agreed to form a committee to oversee a fragile ceasefire as they engage in peace talks mediated by the United Nations.
Sources close to the talks said on Saturday that representatives of the Houthi Ansarullah movement have resumed negotiations in the Swiss village of Magglingen under a proposed UN plan for the formation of the committee to monitor the truce.
Houthi officials had threatened to pull out of the talks after reports emerged Friday that the other side, forces loyal to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, had captured a major town in northwestern Yemen apparently to solidify the position of the delegation representing Hadi in the negotiations.
The blitz into the town of Hazm in Jawf Province came one day after supporters of Hadi captured Harad in neighboring Hajjah Province in violation of a one-week truce which came into effect hours before the talks started on December 15.
Truce violation was intensified Friday after Saudi Arabia, which seeks to reinstate Hadi, bombarded areas in northern Yemen and reportedly opened the southern borders to allow more pro-Hadi militants into the Yemeni territory.
Sources said the two delegations agreed on the fifth day of talks to have the ceasefire violation cases monitored by the UN-proposed committee, which, according to reports, will be headed by a Lebanese army general.
Houthis and allies in the Yemeni army have recorded numerous cases of truce violation by Saudi Arabia and militants loyal to Hadi, saying Riyadh had intensified its campaign against Yemen in a bid to take advantage of the truce.
United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmad, who is personally mediating the talks in Switzerland, voiced deep concern on Friday at “numerous reports of violations of the cessation of hostilities.”
More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since Saudi Arabia launched an aggression against Yemen in support of Hadi on March 26.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/12/yemen-update-12192015-warring-sides.html
