Yemen: Joint Operation Against Saudi-backed Mercenaries in Taiz

By Staff, YemenWatch.net

The artillery unit of the Yemeni army and the armed forces’ drones unit launched a joint operation in Taiz targeting Saudi-backed mercenaries.

The offensive hit the militants’ positions at the Wazieyah front, killing and wounding several Saudi-backed fighters.

The Yemeni army has achieved great strides in developing domestic attack drones and using them to orchestrate devastating retaliatory attacks on oil facilities and other vital Saudi targets.

Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall the Riyadh-allied former regime and crush the Yemeni Ansarullah revolutionary – objectives that have failed to materialize due to Yemenis’ stiff resistance.

Since the war began, there have been tens of thousands of civilian casualties. Millions of Yemenis now subsist beneath the poverty line and hundreds of thousands of children are suffering and dying from malnutrition.

The Western-backed military aggression, coupled with a naval blockade, has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and led to a massive humanitarian crisis.