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UAE completes withdrawal of troops from Yemen’s Mahrah province: Report

This file picture shows Emirati soldiers during demining operations at the al-Anad airbase in the southern Yemeni province of Lahij, situated 50 kilometers north of Aden. (Photo by AFP)

The last batch of Emirati troops, who had served in a Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen’s eastern province of Mahrah, have arrived home after the Abu Dhabi regime ordered them to withdraw.

Informed sources, requesting anonymity, told Arabic-language Yemen Shabab television network on Saturday that the United Arab Emirates withdrew its forces the previous day, and handed over buildings used by its troops to local authorities.

The sources added that mercenaries and military advisers from African countries would most likely replace Emirati soldiers.

The UAE is Saudi Arabia’s key ally in its deadly war against Yemen.

On Saturday, Yemeni army soldiers, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, targeted the positions of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi at the al-Alab border crossing of the kingdom’s southern region of Asir.

There were no immediate reports about possible casualties or the extent of damage caused.

Yemeni children stand by the graves of schoolboys who were killed while on a bus that was hit by a Saudi airstrike on the Dhahyan market in August, at a cemetery in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa’ada on September 4, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

Separately, an elderly woman sustained injuries when Saudi rockets and mortar shells rained down on residential areas in the Razih district of Yemen’s northwestern mountainous province of Sa’ada.

Moreover, two civilians lost their lives and another two suffered serious injuries when a Saudi airstrike hit a cold storage at Kilo 16 area of al-Hali district in the strategic western Yemeni province of Hudaydah.

This picture shows the aftermath of a Saudi airstrike against a car rental company in the July 7 area of Yemen’s strategic western province of Hudaydah on September 22, 2018. (Photo by the media bureau of the Houthi Ansarullah movement)

A Saudi airstrike against a car rental company in the July 7 area of the same Yemeni province also injured two civilians and left a number of cars burnt out.

High-profile Saudi-backed commander slain in northern Yemen

Additionally, a senior commander of Saudi mercenaries has been killed during clashes with Houthi Ansarullah fighters in Yemen’s northern province of Hajjah. 

Slain Saudi-backed Yemeni Brigadier General Ali Hazza al-Sayadi (Photo via Twitter)

Brigadier General Ali Hazza al-Sayadi, the commander of the Special Forces Brigade in Harad, was reportedly targeted in the Harad district of the province on Saturday evening.

Yemeni ballistic missile targets Saudi Jizan Airport

Meanwhile, Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, fired a domestically-designed and -developed ballistic missile at a strategic economic target in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Jizan in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating military aggression against their impoverished country.

In this file picture, Yemeni forces prepare to launch a domestically-manufactured Badr-1 ballistic missile at a military site in Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Najran. (Photo by the media bureau of Yemen’s Operations Command Center)

A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the short-range Badr-1 missile struck Jizan Airport, also known as King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Airport, with great precision, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of Hadi back to power and crushing the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.

A nurse tends to a Yemeni child suffering from malnutrition at a hospital in the northern district of Abs in Hajjah province on September 19, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

Some 15,000 Yemenis have been killed and thousands more injured since the onset of the Saudi-led aggression.

More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian disaster.


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